Bug#540141: bashisms in /etc/cron.daily/apt

[Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>]

Version: 0.7.22.1

On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 08:26:37AM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> Hey,
> seems that apt has a bashism in /etc/cron.daily/apt, by using $RANDOM which
> doesn't exist on dash:
> 
> corsac@hidalgo: checkbashisms /etc/cron.daily/apt
> possible bashism in /etc/cron.daily/apt line 297 ($RANDOM):
>     if [ -z "$RANDOM" ] ; then
Just look two lines below.

> possible bashism in /etc/cron.daily/apt line 301 ($RANDOM):
>     TIME=$(($RANDOM % $RandomSleep))
Just look two lines above.

> random="$(dd if=/dev/urandom count=1 2> /dev/null | cksum | cut -f1 -d" ")"
Have you read line 299?

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