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. > 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? Thanks.