Bug 232951 - Please consider USE-defaulting urandom for dev-libs/apr
Bug#: 232951 Product:  Gentoo Linux Version: unspecified Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux Status: RESOLVED Severity: normal Priority: P2
Resolution: FIXED Assigned To: apache-bugs@gentoo.org Reported By: leio@gentoo.org
Component: Ebuilds
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Summary: Please consider USE-defaulting urandom for dev-libs/apr
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Status Whiteboard: 
Opened: 2008-07-25 18:08 0000
Description:   Opened: 2008-07-25 18:08 0000
Please consider making USE=urandom the default for dev-libs/apr with +urandom
in IUSE. This of course involves declaring EAPI=1 on the top.

Not using urandom can cause all kinds of issues, of which I have suffered from
/dev/random entropy running out and apache startup stalling for a long time.

This is a request for serious consideration - I don't know all the implications
of using /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random - for example if a platform
supports hardware RNG, is it exposed to either of those (that would be
preferred then), etc?

It seems bug 118054 suggested /dev/random is better IF it works. It also
suggested that a warning should at least be added for users to know of the
issues, but that was ignored or lost over time.

------- Comment #1 From Benedikt Böhm 2008-08-29 12:34:50 0000 -------
fixed in 1.3.3