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.centos4.jethrocarr.src.rpm 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 ) -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq