On 05/04/2006 Clemens Fruhwirth wrote: > cryptsetup 1.0.3 final is out. > Available at the regular URL: > > http://luks.endorphin.org/dm-crypt > > Changes since 1.0.3-rc3: > > * alignPayload patch Peter Palfrader > * meaningful exit codes and password retrying by Johannes Weißl great, but i have some minor problems with this release: - cryptsetup --help does not give information about -q|--batch-mode and --version any more. also the description for isLuks somehow changed to 'add key to LUKS device'. this got confused somehow, as both issues where fixed in 1.0.3-rc3. - what is meant with 'password retrying'? it sounds like an option to specify how often the command is retried in case that it fails. if this is true, why is it neither documented in cryptsetup --help, nor in man cryptsetup? how does the syntax look like? > Packagers: remember to remove the -static flags from LDFLAGS (in case > you instructed configure to add them). This will lead to a broken > executable. The configure script takes care of static linking when > called with --enable-static. > > For Gentoo: remove "append-ldflags -static" from ebuild. the debian package does it in another way. cryptsetup is built without any "static" options the following way: $ make $ gcc lib/.libs/*.o src/*.o luks/.libs/*.o -o src/cryptsetup.static \ -lpopt -ldevmapper -luuid /usr/lib/libgcrypt.a \ /usr/lib/libgpg-error.a $ make install $ cp src/cryptsetup.static $(CURDIR)/debian/cryptsetup/sbin/cryptsetup do you think that using --enable-static in configure is a better way? or does it do the same? in this case the configure option would be better, as it ensures that compability is kept even for future releases. ... jonas ps: did you already investigate the bug with encrypted swap files? see http://bugs.debian.org/351393 for more information. --------------------------------------------------------------------- - http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: dm-crypt-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: dm-crypt-help@xxxxxxxx
