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Trustees moved to git, made actual fork of linux kernel

Trustees has been moved to from subversion to git. This change has been made in order to facilitate the new method by which trustees is developed.

Linux itself is developed using git. The distributed nature of git makes it much simpler to build trustees right on top of the linux kernel itself. So instead of compiling trustees as an external module, you download the patched kernel sources and run make menuconfig as usual. A separate repository will hold the userspace components (settrustees) and documentation for trustees.

The reason for this rather large change in how trustees is developed is that for one thing, it makes life actually a bit simpler for me. Secondly, as of 2.6.24-rc1 (and the upcoming 2.6.24 kernel) the API's I'm using are no longer available for kernel modules. Trustees will *need* to be compiled statically.

For the most part you will need to simply perform a:

git clone git://git.aeruder.net/trustees.git

after that, you can simply read the updated README for the instructions on the kernel component. If you'd like to see this README online, please visit:

http://gitweb.aeruder.net/?p=trustees.git;a=blob_plain;f=README;hb=HEAD

As always, I would greatly appreciate if you'd use the mailing list for any issues (and if you are using trustees, you should definitely join the *very* low volume trustees mailing list).

Posted by Andrew Ruder 2007-12-26

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