[Popcon-developers] Bug#237874: marked as done (popularity-contest: MY_HOSTID not very unique on hurd-i386)

Sun, 21 Mar 2004 02:03:07 -0800

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Subject: popularity-contest: MY_HOSTID not very unique on hurd-i386
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Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.13
Severity: important

Debian GNU/Hurd does not have a /dev/urandom, so the postinst always
generates a MY_HOSTID that equals d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e.
This means that all the millions of millions of hurd-i386 machines
with popcon installed all count as one!

I suggest the following to generate the unique ID:
(dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1k count=1 2>/dev/null; ps xau) | md5sum | \
 sed 's/  -//'''

I also suggest that the postinst replace MY_HOSTID on any hosts that
have d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e set. This is the md5sum of the
empty file, so it should be fairly indicative of an error.

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Source: popularity-contest
Source-Version: 1.15

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
popularity-contest, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

popularity-contest_1.15.dsc
  to pool/main/p/popularity-contest/popularity-contest_1.15.dsc
popularity-contest_1.15.tar.gz
  to pool/main/p/popularity-contest/popularity-contest_1.15.tar.gz
popularity-contest_1.15_all.deb
  to pool/main/p/popularity-contest/popularity-contest_1.15_all.deb

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 237874@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
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Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@debian.org> (supplier of updated popularity-contest package)

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Format: 1.7
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 10:11:41 +0100
Source: popularity-contest
Binary: popularity-contest
Architecture: source all
Version: 1.15
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Popularity Contest Developers <popcon-developers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@debian.org>
Description: 
 popularity-contest - Vote for your favourite packages automatically
Closes: 237874 238037 238210 238302 238953 239051 239077
Changes: 
 popularity-contest (1.15) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Bill Allombert
     - Invalidate the submissions after 20 days instead of 10.
     - Use uuidgen in postinst to get a random HOSTID. (Closes: #237874)
     - Add MY_HOSTID sanity chech to popularity-contest.
   * Petter Reinholdtsen
     - Updated Norwegian BokmÃ¥l and Nynorsk debconf translation,
       patch from HÃ¥vard Korsvoll. (Closes: #238037)
     - Added Simplified Chinese debconf translation, patch from
       Carlos Z.F. Liu. (Closes: #238302)
     - Updated German debconf translation.  Patch from Dennis
       Stampfer. (Closes: #238953)
     - Replace MY_HOSTID on upgrades if it is the empty ID mentioned in
       bug #237874.
     - Updated Spanish debconf translation.  New file from Ruben Porras.
   * Christian Perrier
     - Updated Japaned debconf translation by Kenshi Muto
     - s/are unable to/could not/ in templates. Unfuzzy translations
     - Updated Simplified Chinese translation by Carlos Z.F. Liu
     - Updated Lithuanian translation by KÄ™stutis BiliÅ«nas.
     - Updated Czech translation by Miroslav Kure. Closes: #239051
     - Updated German translation by Dennis Stampfer
     - Updated Portuguese translation by Miguel Figueiredo. Closes: #239077
     - Added Russian translation by Ruslan Batdalov. Closes: #238210
Files: 
 2b1c3551c615c4e6777890bcb27521dc 735 misc optional popularity-contest_1.15.dsc
 c824d4cfbec5e90e0a8a286096f4ff53 37374 misc optional popularity-contest_1.15.tar.gz
 5fa2c04b79e57e697b1394038db1b051 33586 misc optional popularity-contest_1.15_all.deb

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