On Mar 3, 2012 9:05 PM, "Alan McKinnon" <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 3 Mar 2012 08:48:59 -0500 > Michael Mol <mike...@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 to Debian, or is the Gentoo package simply out of date?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,
