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/dev/urandom not seeded across reboots

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From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 23605 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23605: /dev/urandom not seeded across reboots
Date: Sat, 28 May 2016 14:05:35 -0400

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On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 03:57:06PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name> skribis:
> > On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 06:54:58PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Usually, the service’s value is a configuration object, but in this
> case, the service’s value doesn’t matter, so you could simply write:
> 
>   (define (urandom-seed-shepherd-service _)
>     …)
> 
> > +                       ;; Add urandom-seed to the system profile
> > +                       (service-extension profile-service-type list)))))
> 
> The ‘profile-service-type’ represents the system profile, i.e.,
> /run/current-system/profile.  Extending it means adding a package to
> it.
> 
> But here, IIUC, there’s no package to be added to the profile, so you
> should just remove it.
> 
> Last round and we’re done!  :-)

Please find my latest patch attached. It seems to work for me!

[0001-services-Add-urandom-seed-service.patch (text/x-diff, attachment)]

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