Re: [CryptoAPI-devel] Is keeping the patches available through the SF.net "Files" section beneficial?

[Herbert V. R. <hv...@hv...>]

On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 18:02, Justin Clift wrote:
> As well as the kernel patches, I feel it's worth putting the CryptoAPI's
> util-linux patches on the site, but am not sure whether both the 2.11i
> and 2.11n one's should be there, or just the 2.11n ones.  From memory,
> I've been using the 2.11i ones and haven't really looked at the 2.11n
> ones.  Would like people's opinions on this, etc.

I'm not really opposed to it, but on the other hand maybe some link to
ftp.kernel.org for the patch-int's would be better, since there we can
get those patches gpg-signed w/ kernel.org signature.... while on
sourceforge it would require some more work to reliably verify the
integrity of the sources...

btw, keep in mind, that the new planned distribution style will try to
become version indepent, i.e. you download a tar-ball and it does the
required patching of your kernel automatically; thus we should be able
to provide many kernel versions with the latest API... this will be a
major breakthrough in versioning wrt to the international kernel
patch...
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> It should make for a good next step, and we can see if this helps expand
> the userbase of people using crypto stuff with Linux (appropriately),
> and also find out if this makes it easier for the people already using
> cryptoAPI to keep up to date.
btw, some ready to use util-linux crypto-enhanced rpm packages would
surely boost the user base... as most distros use rpm's today...

next night might be ready to use kernel rpms (at least for the most
common distros), that might be another killer application... I'd have a
strange feeling, if I were to trust binaries I didn't compile myself...
but well, not all users are at this level of paranoia... :-)

regards,
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