[CentOS] About ecryptfs-utils

[Akemi Yagi]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Sergio Belkin <sebelk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I've found ecryptfs module into kernel-plus, but ecryptfs-utils is missing:
>
> [root at centos7 ecryptfs-utils-108]# uname -r
> 3.10.0-229.14.1.el7.centos.plus.x86_64
> [root at centos7 ecryptfs-utils-108]# lsmod | grep ecryptfs
> ecryptfs               85424  0
>
> [root at centos7 ecryptfs-utils-108]# LANG=C yum -q search ecryptfs-utils
> Warning: No matches found for: ecryptfs-utils
>
> Just I wonder why these package is not included in any CentOS repo (I guess
> because is not included in upstream), do you know why?

ecryptfs is enabled in the C7 plus kernel because of this request:

https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=7369

Note that ecryptfs is in el5 and el6 but only as a "tech preview" and
did not make it into el7. So, it is not supported by RH (therefore
CentOS).

Akemi