Bug 232951

Summary:	Please consider USE-defaulting urandom for dev-libs/apr
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Mart Raudsepp <leio>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Apache Team - Bugzilla Reports <apache-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Mart Raudsepp gentoo-dev

2008-07-25 18:08:51 UTC

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 Benedikt Böhm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-08-29 12:34:50 UTC

fixed in 1.3.3