At Mon, 24 Jan 2022 08:46:36 +0000, "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6725%twc.com@localhost> wrote: Subject: Re: Note: two files changed and hashes/signatures updated for NetBSD 8.1 > > Does there look to be a fix in the entropy bug? > > This bug relates to entropy and how it impedes building many packages > in pkgsrc. > > I seemed to get around this bug on one computer but not the other. I have fixes that restore the previous option to use "untrusted" hardware as an entropy source. They may need some updating to be truly complete in the most recent -current, as I'm still back at 9.99.81. However I've little hope that my patches will be accepted back into the main source tree, since there seems to be some crazy un-bendable insistence on perfect security of all randomness, even for private machines, embedded systems, and so on. > Other bug is longer-standing and plagued me in NetBSD 8.99.51 and > again in 9.99.82. > > Do there look to be improvements in how NetBSD handles hard drives > that would be affected by that bug? > > That bug causes device timeouts on some types of hard drive but not > all. I can't imagine how the entropy issues could be related in any way to disk device driver timeouts. -- Greg A. Woods <gwoods%acm.org@localhost> Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack <woods%robohack.ca@localhost> Planix, Inc. <woods%planix.com@localhost> Avoncote Farms <woods%avoncote.ca@localhost>
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