Your message dated Fri, 24 May 2013 21:03:06 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Bug#689914: fixed in cron-apt 0.9.2 has caused the Debian Bug report #689914, regarding does funny things on short cksum output to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: cron-apt Severity: normal Please consider the following patch: --- cron-apt.orig 2012-10-07 19:07:15.772153360 +0200 +++ cron-apt 2012-10-07 19:07:32.748173175 +0200 @@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ if [ $RUNSLEEP -gt 0 ] ; then if [ -z "$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 count=1 2> /dev/null | cksum | cut -d' ' -f1) fi TIME=$(($RANDOM % $RUNSLEEP)) sleep $TIME which will help cron-apt to gracefully handle the case where the checksum returned by cksum is shorter than four digits. Greetings Marc -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.5.4-zgws1 (SMP w/8 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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--- Begin Message ---Source: cron-apt Source-Version: 0.9.2 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of cron-apt, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive. 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 [email protected], and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Ola Lundqvist <[email protected]> (supplier of updated cron-apt package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 22:49:33 +0200 Source: cron-apt Binary: cron-apt Architecture: source all Version: 0.9.2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Ola Lundqvist <[email protected]> Changed-By: Ola Lundqvist <[email protected]> Description: cron-apt - automatic update of packages using apt-get Closes: 689914 Changes: cron-apt (0.9.2) unstable; urgency=low . * The code to generate random data is changed so that it handles absence of /dev/urandom and more importantly handles the case when cksum return a too short string. Closes: #689914. Thanks to Marc Haber <[email protected]> and Bob Proulx <[email protected]> for the suggestions. Checksums-Sha1: dcffad069bfa685ea1b7d49f1dda0b1c58580136 736 cron-apt_0.9.2.dsc 3e3c17e41f53c674b16cbe0c547514d26f824fe0 45289 cron-apt_0.9.2.tar.gz 4a9330bab9df70de6365c32bf36c349d45a12e16 27180 cron-apt_0.9.2_all.deb Checksums-Sha256: 281b2516cfc8af1b75757881552645f231a1544cde08d8be40de1f0939b7f10b 736 cron-apt_0.9.2.dsc 5d29679937e57e1f26d83b795fb34d32cf2ea87a0413e1cbc10ad59f95ea986c 45289 cron-apt_0.9.2.tar.gz 6215c929163bdbd9ac361b29422a0babfc6fe021c8c6343c3f6de4b0d8718571 27180 cron-apt_0.9.2_all.deb Files: 0948469d05da25a3e0d38a8dc31eae75 736 admin optional cron-apt_0.9.2.dsc 20f9c9f066f3bb54e036dbbbaf145d0b 45289 admin optional cron-apt_0.9.2.tar.gz d2c38f30943fb60a2b364805ddbd46ab 27180 admin optional cron-apt_0.9.2_all.deb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlGf1AwACgkQGKGxzw/lPdn6QgCfQ5KrkYL8BsDNxWQPjO5c//Ld 3dwAoJxFJKN49GRoVt8C+mq1FGNXkzAu =ivOt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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