On 2025-01-12 02:29, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Source: autopkgtest > X-Debbugs-Cc: t...@debian.org, s...@debian.org > > Hello! > > It has come to my attention that autopkgtest currently depends on > rng-tools-debian as provider of rng-tools for its VMs to ensure > entropy is available, or something.
Hello Thorsten and thanks for the suggestion. Currently autopkgtest is used to test systems as old a Ubuntu Trusty, which ships with Linux 3.13, so what you suggest is too modern. What we could do is skipping installing rng-tools-debian when the kernel version is new enough: Linux 5.6 made /dev/random non-blocking [1]. However this can cause surprises in the case of container images, as the kernel version the container image will run on is not known a priori. Is there a specific reason why you suggest dropping rng-tools-debian, other than having more minimal testbeds, which is always good? [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200131204924.ga455...@mit.edu/
