Jethro Carr wrote:
hi all,
hello!
Briefly about me - I'm interested in becoming involved in helping to develop CentOS (such as removing RH trademarks from new packages, and adding extra packages.)
Excellent!
I have experience with developing distros, from when I developed my own distro called "Jedo Linux". http://www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?page=projects/jedolinux/jedolinux.php
ouch, lfs based form source :(
I've made a modified version of the initscript package. This adds support for using dm-crypt encrypted filesystems on boot.
It allows encrypted swap, and encrypted storage directories. However, it's not really designed for having an encrypted root filesystem (although it could possibly be adapted without too much hassle).
I have a source RPM available here: http://www.jethrocarr.com/packages/SRPMS/initscripts-7.93.24.EL-1.1.1.centos...
can you post a diff -u .patch for the buildroot ? or do it for Source and one for .spec
I wasn't sure what to name it, so I added a .1 and my name to the release name. Feel free to change this to suit if you do decide to add it to one of the repos. :-)
look at some of the .specs from the centosplus repo ( which is where this package will head into, if accepted. ) - specially look at the ?dist tag added in Release: the buildsystem will replace those DistTag's to make some sense automatically.
Usage details and configuration for the encrypted filesystems are in /etc/sysconfig/enc-fstab.
One thing that is important is that for packages you do submit mod's for - do you intend to keep maintaining them and ensure that any security / bug fix related errata from upstream / developers is incorporated in a timely fashion ?
( not sure how relevant that would be here, since dm-crypt and cryptsetup is already in the distro and tracked from upstream )