* [gentoo-user] loop-aes - detach util-linux dependency
@ 2013-01-05 18:21 Alon Bar-Lev
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From: Alon Bar-Lev @ 2013-01-05 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
Hello All loop-aes Users,
Up to now, every time a new version of util-linux was out, we had to
wait for loop-aes patch in order to use it within loop-aes
environment.
The dependency between loop-aes and util-linux was hard to maintain
for both base-system, crypto and users.
Basically, all we need is the losetup utility out of util-linux to
support loop-aes specific options, this because we can perform losetup
and then standard mount/umount over the loop device.
I added a new package loop-aes-losetup which builds a specific version
of util-linux with loop-aes patch, and installs only losetup utility
as loop-aes-losetup. This will enable to drop the loop-aes patches
from util-linux and ease maintenance and usage.
People who wish to migrate to the new setup can do this now, by using
the loop-aes-losetup utility instead of losetup when dealing with
loop-aes loop devices, or replacing mount with loop-aes specific
options with loop-aes-losetup and mount.
I will be happy to answer any question regarding the above, please CC me.
Regards,
Alon Bar-Lev.
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