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Date:      Sun, 16 Jul 2000 19:04:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release/scripts dokern.sh
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007161903020.2839-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000716185552.C86912@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, David O'Brien wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 04:31:17PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > On the Alpha we might not have any choice -- the space on the floppy is
> > > *that* tight.  CD installs on the Alpha can use a full GENERIC kernel.
> > 
> > I suppose there's lots of time to get this fixed, but I'd prefer not to
> > ship an alpha 5.0-R containing packages which try and do cryptographic
> 
> Do you know of any in 4.1-R that do?  I've MFC'ed the lack of
> /dev/random.

Gack, you didn't MFC the new Yarrow did you?

Yes, there are several packages which will be broken by a non-working
/dev/random: ssh, ssh2, apache*ssl, some of the SSL wrapper ports...there
may be others I haven't come across

I'd *really* like to get this fixed if at all possible.

Kris

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