[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#607945: Bug#607945: sbuild: can haz I entropy?

[Roger Leigh]

On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 08:56:31PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Dear Santa Claus,
> 
> can I haz entropy plz? sbuild seems to need it suddenly, which comes
> like a big unpleasant surprise:
> | Check arch
> | ──────────
> |
> | dpkg-deb: building package `sbuild-build-depends-core-dummy' in
> | `/tmp/resolver-PVdljw/apt_archive/sbuild-build-depends-core-dummy.deb'.
> | Generating GPG local archive signing key...
> |
> | Not enough random bytes available.  Please do some other work to give
> | the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 277 more bytes)
> 
> It's a bit late in the Christmas gift release process, but hopefully
> you'll make it in time.

Only just got back from the family, but I'll try for New Year!


This is a one-time only event.  Once the key is generated (which you
can do with "sbuild-update -k" on another system or outside a
package build at your leisure) the same key will be used for all
subsequent builds.

The current strategy is to allow you to generate your own key and
put it in place.  If you haven't done that, it will autogenerate one
the first time it's needed.  For buildds, you'll probably want to
generate one elsewhere and copy it cover.  Note this is in the
release notes (NEWS.gz) for release 0.60.6.

If you have any thoughts on how we can do this better, that would be
great.  apt and aptitude want the local archive signing, so we do it
for that.  If using the "internal" resolver, no key is needed.


Regards,
Roger

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