encrypted filesystem support in FC2

[James Ralston]

On 2004-04-10 at 21:11:25-05 "W. Michael Petullo" <mike at flyn.org> wrote:

> I am running Fedora Rawhide on a PPC-based computer.  When I try to
> rpmbuild cryptsetup I get:
> 
> [...]
> checking for dm_task_set_name in -ldevmapper... no
> configure: error: You need libdevmapper to compile.
> error: Bad exit status from /tmp/rpm-tmp.66119 (%build)

What's the relevant output in BUILD/cryptsetup-0.1/config.log after it
fails?

> I have device-mapper Fedora Rawhide's 1.00.14-1.0 installed.  Are
> you using a stock Red Hat device-mapper package?

Yes:

$ rpm -q device-mapper
device-mapper-1.00.07-3.1

> Are you planning on getting your packages into Fedora Extras to
> start with?  I would be happy to QA them if you are.

I'm hoping Red Hat will treat them as Core packages, but if they
don't, then yes; I'll submit them to Fedora Extras.

> Given that I entered "Losetup and util-linux are not crypto aware
> (#56698)" into Red Hat's bugzilla late in 2001, I am also very
> interested in seeing this resolved in Fedora!

Thanks to dm-crypt, we're very close.  ;)

James