Bug 1634788

Summary: add provides for Jitterentropy-rngd
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Neil Horman <nhorman>
Component: rng-toolsAssignee: John Shortt <jshortt>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 31CC: jaromir.capik, jgarzik, lewk, pwouters
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Last Closed: 2020-11-03 15:34:52 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Neil Horman 2018-10-01 15:57:14 UTC
Description of problem:
Both jitterentropy-rngd and rng-tools provide the jitterentropy source of random data. The later is implemented with the upstream jitterentropy-library, while the former is a clone of that repository and not maintained any longer.  

Add a Provides: jitterentropy-rngd to rng-tools so people sing its functionality have a path forward as we move toward retiring jitterentropy-rngd.

Comment 1 Neil Horman 2018-10-01 15:59:40 UTC
for reviews, this is the planned change:

diff --git a/rng-tools.spec b/rng-tools.spec
index 06dd48c..e626463 100644
--- a/rng-tools.spec
+++ b/rng-tools.spec
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 Summary:        Random number generator related utilities
 Name:           rng-tools
 Version:        6.3.1
-Release:        1%{?dist}
+Release:        2%{?dist}
 Group:          System Environment/Base
 License:        GPLv2+
 URL:            https://github.com/nhorman/rng-tools
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Requires(preun): systemd-units
 Requires(postun): systemd-units
 Requires: libgcrypt libsysfs
 Requires: openssl libxml2 libcurl
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+Provides: jitterentropy-rngd

 %description
 Hardware random number generation tools.
@@ -69,6 +69,9 @@ install -Dt %{buildroot}%{_unitdir} -m0644 %{SOURCE1}
 %attr(0644,root,root)   %{_unitdir}/rngd.service

 %changelog
+* Mon Oct 01 2018 Neil Horman <nhorman> - 6.3.1-2
+- Add Provides for jitterentropy-rngd (bz 1634788)
+
 * Mon Jul 16 2018 Neil Horman <nhorman> - 6.3.1-1
 - Update to latest upstream

Comment 2 Paul Wouters 2018-10-02 14:45:38 UTC
From upstream:

> It is correct that Neil merged my Jitter RNG into rngd. It is correct that
> jitterentropy-rngd would not be needed with the updated rngd.
>
> Though, it is not correct that jitterentropy-rngd is not maintained any more.
> I still keep it for small environments. I know that people are using this
> tool.
>
> I am fine to drop jitterentropy-rngd in Fedora as Fedora advertises the use of
> rngd.

I will retire jitterentropy-rngd in fedora.

Comment 3 Ben Cotton 2019-08-13 19:43:19 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 31 development cycle.
Changing version to 31.

Comment 5 Ben Cotton 2020-11-03 15:03:02 UTC
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Comment 6 Paul Wouters 2020-11-03 15:34:52 UTC
This would have made sense to fix, but I guess now the issue is moot because it as already bitten everyone who had jitterentropy-rngd installed a few fedora releases ago (it was retired in f29)