pollinate 4.14-0ubuntu1 source package in Ubuntu
Changelog
pollinate (4.14-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium * pollinate, pollinate.1: LP: #1554152 - change the failure mode of pollinate, so as to more cleanly tolerate network failures - add a --strict option to re-enable the previous behavior, ie, strictly exit non-zero if pollinate fails for any reason - we've always promised that pollinate would operate on a best-effort basis, improving the prng seeding when possible, but failing gracefully when not possible; as such, we've made good on the first half of that promise, however, the latter half has proven troublesome; this is due to the fact that if pollinate exits non-zero, then its callers (cloud-init, maas, etc.) may well interpret the behavior strictly as a failure to boot the system, when in fact that's not the case; instead, we'll clearly print a warning to syslog, and we'll retry the seeding on next pollinate service start (e.g. a reboot); moreover, we'll carry a --strict flag in the case that users want to opt into the previous behavior -- Dustin Kirkland <email address hidden> Tue, 13 Oct 2015 10:16:12 -0700
Upload details
- Uploaded by:
- Dustin Kirkland
- Uploaded to:
- Xenial
- Original maintainer:
- Dustin Kirkland
- Architectures:
- all
- Section:
- admin
- Urgency:
- Medium Urgency
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pollinate_4.14.orig.tar.gz | 94.4 KiB | 89fa50b006ccbfce6e824e714a13cc90c03fb1a6003be995296ede0fb9856915 |
pollinate_4.14-0ubuntu1.debian.tar.xz | 11.3 KiB | e6cf001c94a2817bc5cb504e29c4f4606340b07a19600cb4411aa8fddf77f77c |
pollinate_4.14-0ubuntu1.dsc | 1.7 KiB | 4d666f01687d959fbf683f9f38d9d355a4511219cb2e9b863f99ee9e66f928d2 |
Available diffs
- diff from 4.13-0ubuntu1 to 4.14-0ubuntu1 (2.2 KiB)
Binary packages built by this source
- pollinate: seed the pseudo random number generator
This client will connect to one or more Pollen (entropy-
as-a-service)
servers over an (optionally) encrypted connection and retrieve a random
seed over HTTP or HTTPS.
This is particularly useful at the first boot of cloud images and in
virtual machines, to seed a system's random number generator at
genesis, and is intended to supplement the /etc/init.d/urandom init script.
It can be used on physical machines, as well, to supplement the seeding
of the psuedo random number generator.