hi & submission of updated initscripts rpm

hi all,

this is the first time I've contributed to a distro that is
not my own,
so if I'm doing something the "wrong way",
please do inform me. 

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.)

I have experience with developing distros, from when I
developed my own
distro called "Jedo Linux". 
http://www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?pag
e=projects/jedolinux/jedolinux.php


In regards to the other subject of this email,

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.jethr
ocarr.com/packages/SRPMS/initscripts-7.93.24.EL-1.1.1.centos
4.jethrocarr.src.rpm

Basicly, I've added written a patch for initscripts, and
made a couple
of minor changes to the spec file.

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. 

Usage details and configuration for the encrypted
filesystems are
in /etc/sysconfig/enc-fstab.


thanks,

-- 
Jethro Carr

www.jethrocarr.com
www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?page=cv/cv.php
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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?pag
e=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.jethr
ocarr.com/packages/SRPMS/initscripts-7.93.24.EL-1.1.1.centos
4.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/ :
2522219icq
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