Bug#336651: marked as done (libapr0: Need to compile --with-devrandom=/dev/urandom)
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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: libapr0: Need to compile --with-devrandom=/dev/urandom
- From: "Mark A. Hershberger" <mah@everybody.org>
- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:44:06 -0600
- Message-id: <E1EWeda-0007UN-2E@superman.everybody.org>
Package: libapr0
Version: 2.0.54-5
Severity: grave
libapr should be compiled using /dev/urandom so that tools like svn
can actually function on servers where there is less entropy available.
http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2005-08/0818.shtml
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-p4-smp
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages libapr0 depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libdb4.2 4.2.52-18 Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [
ii libexpat1 1.95.8-3 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libpcre3 6.4-1.0.1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
libapr0 recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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- Subject: Re: Bug#336651: libapr0: Need to compile --with-devrandom=/dev/urandom
- From: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>
- Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 08:59:46 +0200
- Message-id: <87odso4nml.fsf@thosu.err.no>
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- In-reply-to: <E1EWeda-0007UN-2E@superman.everybody.org> (Mark A. Hershberger's message of "Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:44:06 -0600")
- References: <E1EWeda-0007UN-2E@superman.everybody.org>
* "Mark A. Hershberger"
| libapr should be compiled using /dev/urandom so that tools like svn
| can actually function on servers where there is less entropy available.
No, it shouldn't. SVN shouldn't ask for unneeded entropy and you
should have good random bits available on your server. Closing this
bug.
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