truecrypt

Farkas Levente lfarkas at bppiac.hu
Wed Sep 26 09:21:16 UTC 2007


Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Tuesday, 25 September 2007 at 23:36, Farkas Levente wrote:
>> Luke Macken wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 12:55:30PM -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
>>>> Has anyone looked at truecrypt?  Looks interesting.  I D/L the source, but
>>>> it says:
>>>>
>>>>   Note that Linux kernel headers, located in the 'include' directory, are
>>>>   not sufficient for compilation of the TrueCrypt kernel module. Fields of
>>>>   'dm_dev' structure must be accessed by TrueCrypt but they are defined only
>>>> in
>>>>   an internal kernel header 'drivers/md/dm.h'. No appropriate accessor
>>>> function
>>>>   is available. The complete source code of the Linux kernel is required for
>>>>   compilation of the kernel module.
>>> Truecrypt is awesome, but their license[0] is a bit questionable.  It's a
>> you can always found the latest kmod in:
>> http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/fedora/7/
> 
> Talk about duplicated effort. ;) Why don't you submit your package (perhaps
> after merging with mine) to rpmfusion?

i'd be happy if any repo will contain it and i don't have to recompile.
everybody can use my spec in any repo. the main reason that i use it
(ie. i've truecrypt volumes) and i always need the latest kmod for the
latest fedora kernel while most repo is in a few days delay.

-- 
  Levente                               "Si vis pacem para bellum!"




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