On Sat, 3 Mar 2012 22:04:29 +0700 Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote:
> 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 unique to Debian, or is the Gentoo package simply out of date?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. That's true enough. epatch_user() must be called for it to work. However, it is defined in base.eclass and part of EAPI-2. How many ebuilds does that exclude these days? I did a quick back-of-the-envelope check: # find /var/portage/ -type f -name "*.ebuild" | wc 29846 29846 1730549 # grep EAPI=[234] /var/portage/*-*/*/*.ebuild | wc 11138 11273 719796 # grep EAPI=1 /var/portage/*-*/*/*.ebuild | wc 336 341 21938 # grep EAPI=0 /var/portage/*-*/*/*.ebuild | wc 5 5 275 37.3 coverage of >=EAPI-2. Wow. I really thought it would be more. -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
