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Re: random translator



olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net, le Sat 01 Oct 2011 09:57:04 +0200, a écrit :
> Seems a bit strange to go for a solution that apparently will require
> extra effort to bring it to the same level, just to work around some
> packaging issues...

"Seems a bit strange to require a perl module to be installed by default
on *all* Debian systems, just to run a random translator while some
alternatives exist."

is what you would hear from the other point of view. I have to say that
making something like a random translator use perl wasn't looking very
sensible to me (e.g. since perl uses /dev/random, which brings some
bootstrapping issues).

> > -Provides: makedev, login
> > -Replaces: makedev, login
> > -Conflicts: makedev, login
> > +Provides: makedev, login, random-egd
> > +Replaces: makedev, login, random-egd
> > +Conflicts: makedev, login, random-egd
> 
> I'm not an expert on this stuff -- but isn't "provides" rather odd in
> this case?...

IIRC I had to use it else it wouldn't upgrade nicely. but maybe a
"Breaks" instead would make it work.

> > +	if showtrans /dev/random 2> /dev/null | grep -q entropy.sock
> > +	then
> > +		# old random-egd translator, remove
> > +		settrans -g /dev/random
> > +		settrans -g /dev/urandom
> > +	fi
> 
> You probably want -gf here, or perhaps -go.

-go should be just fine indeed.

Samuel


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