[arch-releng] [PATCH] Initialize pacman keyring on bootup

Tom Gundersen teg at jklm.no
Mon Jun 18 15:21:49 EDT 2012


On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
> Am 18.06.2012 20:57, schrieb Tom Gundersen:
>> Presumably, pacman won't be needed immediately on boot, so to appear a
>> bit more "snappy" i guess it would make sense to do the pacman-init in
>> the background.
>>
>> This would obviously only work if there is some lock in place to make
>> pacman wait on pacman-init to finish in a graceful way. Is this the
>> case?
>
> I am not sure if this would be worth the possible trouble. In my vm
> this script finished in less than 1s.

Ok, the generation of the entropy is faster than I expected. This
could be a potential future optimization then, no need to worry about
it now.

-t


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