Bug#535268: pbuilder: option to replace /dev/random with /dev/urandom inside build environment

[Junichi Uekawa]

Hi,

Hmmm? why not fix ia32-apt-get ? It sounds like it would always be a
problem on headless servers.

At Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:51:50 +0200,
Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> 
> Package: pbuilder
> Version: 0.188
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hi Junichi,
> 
> what about an option to replace /dev/random with /dev/urandom inside the
> chroot?
> Installation of ia32-apt-get (current sid) during package build every time
> drains /dev/random and blocks until enough new random bits can be collected.
> For creating some temporary gpg keys/keyrings/whatever, the use of
> /dev/urandom should be sufficient.
> Are there any uses of pbuilder that might need a "good" /dev/random device?
> 
> What about a new setting for pbuilder to replace /dev/random by a
> symlink to /dev/urandom
> a) never (as it is now, probably should be the default)
> b) during build
> c) always (also during login/execute --save-after, create/update, ...)
> ==> DEVURANDOMASDEVRANDOM=never|build|always
> 
> Once a setting of 'always' was used in a session that was saved
> (--save-after, update, create) that change might be "permanent" and not
> automatically undone by setting 'never' or 'build'.
> 
> 
> Andreas
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (800, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable'), (130, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> 
> Versions of packages pbuilder depends on:
> ii  coreutils                   7.4-2        The GNU core utilities
> ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.5.26       Debian configuration management sy
> ii  debianutils                 3.1.3        Miscellaneous utilities specific t
> ii  debootstrap                 1.0.10lenny1 Bootstrap a basic Debian system
> ii  wget                        1.11.4-2     retrieves files from the web
> 
> Versions of packages pbuilder recommends:
> ii  devscripts                    2.10.52    scripts to make the life of a Debi
> ii  fakeroot                      1.12.2     Gives a fake root environment
> ii  sudo                          1.7.0-1    Provide limited super user privile
> 
> Versions of packages pbuilder suggests:
> ii  cowdancer             0.56               Copy-on-write directory tree utili
> ii  gdebi                 0.3.11debian1+nmu1 Simple tool to install deb files
> pn  pbuilder-uml          <none>             (no description available)
> 
> -- debconf information excluded
> 
> 
> 
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