[Aurora-sparc-user] additions to Aurora Extras (was: Step by Step: Portage on Aurora)

[Jima]

On Sun, 23 Jul 2006, mat wrote:
> Dennis Gilmore wrote:
>> What is missing from extras  that you use?
> 
> if you're offering to port then luks and fuse would be worth a right
> arm or two.
> i had a quick go recently and failed miserably.
> loop-aes really sucks and luks/fuse would be a god send.
> truecrypt would be really nice too...

  It's worth noting that there are a few Fedora Extras contributors on the 
list; Aurora Extras is merely a rebuild of FE.  If there's a package 
desired in Aurora, that's likely the best (as in "serving the widest 
audience") way to get it in.  I do believe most Extras contributors are 
open to suggestions.
  Looking at the Fedora trees, it looks like fuse wasn't part of Extras 
until FC4; Aurora 2.0/2.1 are a rebuild of FC3.  It looks like luks didn't 
make it until FC5 (and is in Core, actually).  I'm seeing some 
implications that third parties have gotten truecrypt working (or tried), 
but it doesn't appear there's been an official effort to do so.
  So, for fuse one can either hope someone (*cough* Dennis *cough*) tries 
to backport it to Aurora (possible), or we'll have to wait for the next 
major Aurora tree (based on FC6), which will likely have both fuse *and* 
luks (unless there's some jolly Endian-ish issue building them).  But, no 
idea when that'll be out (probably when FC6 comes out, at best).

      Jima