From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] rng-tools
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 22:04:29 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA2qdGVrdEa5Tacds1C_ae1aEvjiBCb+qeKsR9zxJEYH8Y49fA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Mar 3, 2012 9:05 PM, "Alan McKinnon" <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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 to Debian, or is the Gentoo package simply out of date?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
>
>
Remember that it depends on whether the ebuild for the package support user
patches or not.
Rgds,
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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
2012-03-03 15:04 ` Pandu Poluan [this message]
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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