GNU bug report logs - #29542
rng-tools: New upstream location, new releases

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Reported by: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>

Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2017 00:32:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29542: closed (rng-tools: New upstream location, new releases)
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 08:56:02 +0000
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and subject line Re: [bug#29542] rng-tools: New upstream location, new releases
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From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: guix-patches <at> gnu.org
Subject: rng-tools: New upstream location, new releases
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2017 19:31:26 -0500
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Here is a patch to switch the upstream source of rng-tools and update it
to 6.1.

The change was announced on the rng-tools wiki:

https://sourceforge.net/p/gkernel/wiki/Home/

What do you think?
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From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: 29542-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#29542] rng-tools: New upstream location, new releases
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 03:55:47 -0500
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On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 12:11:36AM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote:
> Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name> writes:
> > How about we disable the NIST beacon support for now, and add
> > 'rng-tools-minimal' later if the feature is requested?
> 
> That sounds good to me.  I prefer my entropy sources lightweight ;)

I pushed the update without the NIST beacon support as
8bc6956bbd28b749538d113a214a63a93039537f.
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