[geeks] Anyone use Subversion?

[Phil Stracchino]

Jay Monkman wrote:
> None of that sounds typical. At least not for me, and I've been using SVN on several 
> Debian systems for more than 5 years. I've also used it on Windows and other
> Linux distros. 
> 
> From what I found on the web, the entropy problem is caused libapr. I would have
> expected it to be built to use /dev/urandom on Linux. I believe that it's a configure
> option.

OK, I didn't find any libapr references.  I would ASSUME the Debian
package would be built against /dev/urandom myself.

> Did you restart apache or svnserve after changing the /dev/random link?

Yes.

> I don't know why your .svn directories would have gotten corrupted.

Nor do I, but it wasn't my commit that became corrupted.  I think part
of that problem may have been "client's source control procedures are
not good".


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