[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#834683: fixed in mini-buildd 1.0.17

[Stephan Sürken]

Rehi,

On Mo, 2016-09-12 at 21:34 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 07:34:09PM +0200, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> 
> > 
> > An even easier approach might be to do the following within the
> > build:
> > 
> >   * ln -sf /dev/urandom /dev/random
> > 
> > why would we need the blocking kernel RNG in the buildd anyway?
> Either that, or maybe a build-depends on a package specifically
> created to do that (as I'm not sure we could really ask all buildd
> operators to make the symlink permanently).
> 
> A good solution should be automatic and not need manual intervention,
> and should be independent of the machine on which the build is done.

Exactly ;).

> > Lastly, one other option for gnupg at least is to patch upstream to
> > use
> > --debug-quick-random in the build-time test.
> > 
> > do any of these options sound more appealing than the others?
> I didn't know about --debug-quick-random, it seems perfect to me.
> 
> Stephan, do you think it would be possible to patch mini-buildd so
> that --debug-quick-random is added to gnupg command line, but only
> when the package is doing the tests following the build?

Yeah, I will check this out (though it's not an option to gpg directly,
afair). Or maybe going with a pre-generated key.

Thx,

S