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| -rw-r--r-- | debian/apt.cron.daily | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/changelog | 4 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/debian/apt.cron.daily b/debian/apt.cron.daily index 5c00f22db..27f08dd4a 100644 --- a/debian/apt.cron.daily +++ b/debian/apt.cron.daily @@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ random_sleep() fi if [ -z "$RANDOM" ] ; then # A fix for shells that do not have this bash feature. - RANDOM=$(dd if=/dev/urandom count=1 2> /dev/null | cksum | cut -c"1-5") + RANDOM=$(dd if=/dev/urandom bs=2 count=1 2> /dev/null | cksum | cut -d' ' -f1 | cut -c"1-5") fi TIME=$(($RANDOM % $RandomSleep)) debug_echo "sleeping for $TIME seconds" diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 02fcdaa8b..d08dd8038 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ apt (0.9.7.8) UNRELEASED; urgency=low of e.g. apt-get update. While this adds new translatable strings, not having translations for them will not break anything. Thanks to Guillem Jover. Closes: #696225 + * debian/apt.cron.daily: + - when reading from /dev/urandom, use less entropy and fix a rare + bug when the random number chksum is less than 1000. + Closes: #695285 -- Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> Mon, 24 Dec 2012 07:01:20 +0100 |