Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes

[Daniel Iliev <daniel.iliev@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:30:25 -0400
Chris Walters <cjw2004d@comcast.net> wrote:


> | The following works here:
> |
> | 1) ebuild `equery w loop-aes` unpack
> |
> | 2) cd $PORTDIR/sys-fs/loop-aes-<version>/work/loop-AES-<version>/
> |
> | 3) make EXTRA_CIPHERS=y
> |
> | 4) cd ../../
> |
> | 5) touch .compiled
> |
> | 6) cd
> |
> | 7) ebuild `equery w loop-aes` merge
> |
> |
> | (I actually stopped only up to step 3, but it finished w/o error)
> |
> |
> | Since you said something about lack of documentation about loop-aes,
> | have you already found this?
> |
> | http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net/loop-AES.README
> |
> |
> | NOTE: "In order to support AES and other ciphers, mount, umount,
> | losetup, swapon and swapoff need to be patched and
> | recompiled."
> |
> | There's a hope - Gentoo may provide a patched version of util-linux.
> | In case those tools are not already patched I wouldn't go that far
> | on a system which is not especially dedicated for this encryption
> | test of yours.
> 
> Thanks for this.  I will give it a try, when I get a chance. 


Sorry, from your reply I saw there's an error in my message:

Step 2 should read: "$PORTAGE_TMPDIR/portage" instead of "$PORTDIR"

Anyways you'll see the correct directory for your system from the output
of "ebuild unpack". My apologies and good luck.


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Best regards,
Daniel
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