From: Herbert Xu Subject: Re: [pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#541835: crypto configuration / dependencies broken Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 13:22:06 +1000 Message-ID: <20090903032206.GA18883@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <20090901005120.GB22049@resivo.wgnet.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: sebastian@breakpoint.cc, celejar@gmail.com, randy.dunlap@oracle.com, 541835@bugs.debian.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, control@bugs.debian.org To: Jonas Meurer Return-path: Received: from rhun.apana.org.au ([64.62.148.172]:42344 "EHLO arnor.apana.org.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754130AbZICDW1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Sep 2009 23:22:27 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090901005120.GB22049@resivo.wgnet.de> Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Jonas Meurer wrote: > > i guess the best solution would be to improve the module dependency > system. cipher meta-modules like 'aes' should depend on all available > implementations. same for ivciphers, hashs, rng implementations etc. We already do that for algorithms at least, they should all have aliases of the form "ALG" or "ALG-all". Things like chainiv/eseqiv should just be included always. There are unlikely to be any new algorithms of that type. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt