[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Inform the user to generate entropy

[Dan McGee]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Daniel Wallace
<daniel.wallace at gatech.edu> wrote:
> FS#30286 Inform the user that entropy is needed
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Wallace <daniel.wallace at gatech.edu>
> ---
>  scripts/pacman-key.sh.in | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/pacman-key.sh.in b/scripts/pacman-key.sh.in
> index ae491d2..41498c6 100644
> --- a/scripts/pacman-key.sh.in
> +++ b/scripts/pacman-key.sh.in
> @@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ generate_master_key() {
>         # Generate the master key, which will be in both pubring and secring
>         "${GPG_PACMAN[@]}" --gen-key --batch <<EOF
>  %echo Generating pacman keyring master key...
> +%echo Please do something to help gather entropy

Doesn't gnupg itself print a message like this? I also agree that
without some example of something to do, this message would still
leave me scratching my head if I didn't know as much as I do about the
Linux RNG.

-Dan