from Martin Musemann: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 09:24:01AM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > This entropy thing seems crazy to me
> It is! But it also is: > - a one time only thing (supposed to happen when you set the machine up > for the first time) > - a current only issue > - only affecting some machines > - a blocker for the netbsd-10 branch > Unfortunatley there is no consensus yet how to deal with it better. > Martin I believe I must apply the fix/workaround every time. meaning every booted session where I would build packages from pkgsrc. Had I known the next point, I might have tried to upgrade to releng-9 (NetBSD 9.2_STABLE) instead of HEAD, if the cvs checkout and update didn't get stuck on a broken pipe. But I don't really know if that would have helped regarding pkgsrc problems. NetBSD 9.99.82 has reduced functionality compared to 8.99.51. I can still use some old packages, but much less than with 8.99.51. Last time I looked at the releng wiki page, I noticed that there were issues that prevented the netbsd-10 branch, and no time estimate for the branch. Entropy bug was not mentioned specifically, but clearly it is a blocker. Tom