On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:30:25 -0400 Chris Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
