From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] rng-tools
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 16:00:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120303160010.4dcae550@khamul.example.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+czFiB1Q2f8r=_O0TN7BvMT7Q1T=7cYfQrDEO5Wx2i_Z-DRXw@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, 3 Mar 2012 08:48:59 -0500
Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:
> So I've been making extensive use of rngd on one of my Debian servers,
> and I wanted to make use of it on a couple of my Gentoo boxes. Only to
> find out that two parameters I need, -T and -R, aren't available, even
> when I unmask version '3' in portage. Even the manpage contains
> 'FIXME' where the Debian manpage contains much more information.
>
> The version of the rng-tools Debian package I'm using is
> '2-unofficial-mt.14-1~60squeeze1'. Are the -T and -R parameters unique
> to Debian, or is the Gentoo package simply out of date?
>
You should download the .deb and see if it contains custom patches
(rather likely actually). If you want those patches applied, stick them
in /etc/portage/patches/ in the proper place.
I can never remember how all that stuff works, I have to Google it each
time :-) Start here if you haven't heard of user-custom patch
support in portage yet:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-791464.html
http://klaig.blogspot.com/2011/07/how-to-apply-user-patches-in-portage.html
--
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-03 14:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-03 13:48 [gentoo-user] rng-tools Michael Mol
2012-03-03 14:00 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2012-03-03 15:04 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-03 15:32 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-06 10:32 ` Sebastian Pipping
2012-04-13 1:14 ` Michael Mol
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