* Guillem Jover:
> If the stable release team would be fine with introducing a new source
> package to stable then I guess the easiest is to just "backport".
> I think it most probably should build on etch w/o modifications.
>
> Otherwise from where were you thinking on generating the library
> pa
Hi Florian,
On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 17:28:30 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Thorsten Glaser:
> > Any progress on the libbsd package, now that licence issues are out
> > of the way? IIRC, plans were to get it ready for all arches in lenny?
>
> We need a thread-safe vers
Hi,
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 13:08:53 +, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Dixi:
>
> >Any progress on the libbsd package, now that licence issues are out
> >of the way? IIRC, plans were to get it ready for all arches in lenny?
It took a bit more time than expected, but it's a
* Thorsten Glaser:
> Florian Weimer dixit:
>
>>I'd also see a change that limits the number of bytes which is read from
>>/dev/urandom (32 or fewer should be enough). I'm concerned about
>>looping shell scripts darinign entropy from the pool at an unacceptably
>>high rate.
>
> For things like tha
Florian Weimer dixit:
>I'd also see a change that limits the number of bytes which is read from
>/dev/urandom (32 or fewer should be enough). I'm concerned about
>looping shell scripts darinign entropy from the pool at an unacceptably
>high rate.
For things like that, the OpenBSD and MirBSD kern
* Thorsten Glaser:
> Any progress on the libbsd package, now that licence issues are out
> of the way? IIRC, plans were to get it ready for all arches in lenny?
We need a thread-safe version of something like arc4random as an element
for various security patches (which will target etch).
Dixi:
>• I also attached the version of arc4random.c currently used by the mksh
> package for Debian, SuSE and Fedora/RHEL, as the FreeBSD version which
> is currently in libbsd trunk seems to be older
This is the more interesting as the version currently used by you only
exposes part of the st
Dixi:
>Any progress on the libbsd package, now that licence issues are out
>of the way? IIRC, plans were to get it ready for all arches in lenny?
There are more problems with the libbsd package:
• debian/copyright is incomplete (only mentions the FreeBSD files)
• src/fgetln.c can neve
Mikael Berthe dixit:
>* Thorsten Glaser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-29 23:27 +0200]:
>> Hi!
>>
>> arc4random(3) is a self-seeding PRNG available on a lot of OSes (all BSDs,
>...
>> Debian with the new libbsd package installed
>
>I wanted to try but the
Hi,
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 21:50:37 +, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> while they still haven’t brought out an official announcement, this seems
> to be better than noting:
> │ http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2008/04/30/msg005553.html
>
> I also had private replies from Martin Husemann an
Hi again,
while they still haven’t brought out an official announcement, this seems
to be better than noting:
│ http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2008/04/30/msg005553.html
I also had private replies from Martin Husemann and Alistair Crooks, both
members of the board, confirming this, as
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