Bug 16671 – utils-linux ebuild: Please Integrate the cipher modules patch from loop-aes into utils-linux

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Haldir 2003-03-02 11:28:01 UTC]

It would be nice if the utils-linux ebuild could already contain the .diff file 
from loop-aes to support more encryption ciphers. As with every new utils-linux 
version, the support breaks and you have to rebuild losetup and mount
http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net/
it's included in the main distributions file and for utils-linux-2.11z it's 
called util-linux-2.11z.diff (135kb)

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 klavs klavsen 2003-08-20 04:24:08 UTC]

Has this been done in util-linux-2.12? it seems to have a very different aes encryption support (ie. I can't mount my gentoo-sources cryptoapi aes encrypted filesystem with it).

Also, If the new util-linux only works with loop-aes - shouldn't there be a loop-aes ebuild (there was once, but has been removed from the tree for unknown, to me, reasons).

[Comment 2 Jason Burrell 2004-04-02 18:45:46 UTC]

There are various crypto FS implementations out there and none of them are compatable with one another. I think loop-AES is probably the best, as it has a number of features that the others don't, including GPG key support, integration with /etc/fstab, and more. 

I think that probably the easiest way to do this is to integrate the patch into util-linux's patch list, then make actually applying the patch a USE-dependent option. Handling the kernel module might be a bit tricky, but only stylistically. To keep this working through kernel upgrades, the kernel ebuilds would have to reflect it as well.

[Comment 3 Haldir 2004-04-03 04:04:42 UTC]

Not relevant anymore as for Kernel 2.6 (and especially >2.6.4)