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Bug#336651: marked as done (libapr0: Need to compile --with-devrandom=/dev/urandom)



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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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* "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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