From: Michael Vogt <michael.vogt@ubuntu.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 05:57:13 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: * debian/apt.cron.daily:
X-Git-Tag: 0.9.8~53^2
X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/apt.git/commitdiff_plain/50816ce74432f24135aefc590361bbb8ccfc71f1?ds=inline;hp=--cc

* 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
---

50816ce74432f24135aefc590361bbb8ccfc71f1
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