FS#60645 - [botan] >= 2.8.0 - Enable getrandom syscall

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Siegfried Metz (NiceGuy) - Tuesday, 30 October 2018, 10:25 GMT
Last edited by Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto) - Sunday, 11 November 2018, 16:31 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Botan 2.8.0 [1] added support for using the GNU/Linux getrandom syscall to access the system PRNG and to make use of this feature we should pass along a new configure option "--with-os-feature=getrandom" to enable it.

The commit message [2] mentioned that it requires a recent enough kernel and glibc. Both requirements, of course, Arch already fulfills in flying colors. The man-page [3] lists that getrandom() was introduced in the GNU/Linux kernel version 3.17 and glibc in version 2.25.


[1]: https://botan.randombit.net/news.html
[2]: https://github.com/randombit/botan/commit/9a41b24157260eb9830e6a441c1131d6be09b3df
[3]: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/getrandom.2.html

Additional info:
* >= botan-2.8.0
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Closed by  Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto)
Sunday, 11 November 2018, 16:31 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto) - Sunday, 11 November 2018, 16:21 GMT
Thanks for reporting! The updated package will appear in [community] shortly.

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