On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 11:08:15PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 09.03.19 um 23:00 schrieb Santiago Vila: > > The reason I would still consider this as a bug (with whatever severity > > you like) is that symlinking /dev/random to /dev/urandom is a common > > workaround for lack of entropy, which in turn has traditionally been a > > common problem for anybody who tries to build a lot of packages in a row. > > Can you point to any reference that this is indeed a common practice? > I think this is a rather bad and dangerous practice, tbh.
I don't have a reference for how much common it can be, but it is easy to find such suggestion as a workaround for the lack of entropy problem. Some examples: https://superuser.com/questions/309840/how-can-i-point-dev-random-to-dev-urandom https://www.ploxiln.net/urandom_random.html https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1036980 Thanks. _______________________________________________ Pkg-systemd-maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-systemd-maintainers
