Bug 78556

Summary:	util-linux: USE=old-crypt fails if USE=crypt
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) <suka>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-01-18 11:47:49 UTC

the old-crypt useflag in util-linux only works if you also specify -crypt. As "crypt" is a global use flag which is also used for other stuff, the ebuild should be corrected so that the loop-aes patch only gets applied if the cryptoapi wasn't applied before.

And just for interest: I know that cryptoapi has its issues, but why do we default on something (loop-aes) which none of our default kernels supply at all? Wouldn't it be more logical to use new-crypt for loop-aes?

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-01-18 12:28:34 UTC

cryptoapi is crap ... it's dead upstream and it only still applies to util-linux becuase people (like myself) have been forward porting it

i stopped doing that with 2.12p

i'll touch up the ebuild to do `! use old-crypt && use crypt && epatch loop-aes`

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-01-18 16:47:16 UTC

added ! use old-crypt logic to cvs