Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Mipsel gNS 3 + crypto

[Sam Geeraerts]

Ted Smith schreef:
> On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 20:02 +0930, Karl Goetz wrote:
> > On Mon, 10 May 2010 11:32:28 -0700 (PDT)
> > "Jason Self" <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > > upstream d-i supports crypted filesystems, but i don't know if that
> > > > was added after the version we are using was frozen off or not.
> > > Support for encrypted installs was added to the Debian installer back
> > > in 2006 [1] so I'm confused by the above statement.
> > Let me try again :)
> > "I have no idea when crypted filesystems entered debian-installer. it
> > may have happened after debian5 was released, in which case it is
> > unavailable. alternatively, it may be disabled by us (somehow) to
> > reduce support complexity for the installer"
> > I honestly have no idea, i've never looked at our installer code.
>
> I don't mean to be harsh here, but do you know what's happening here, or
> were you just giving me a "generic" response ('x doesn't work' -> 'not
> enough resources, fix it yourself')?
>
> I would love to get this working in gNewSense for me and for the
> community, but to do that I need to even know where to look. 
>
> Specifically, the questions I need answers for include:
>
>       * Is this a problem in d-i, in the mipsel debian port, or in
>         gNewSense?
>       * Was it a feature that wasn't available when gNS based off of
>         Debian, or did gNS disable it after the fact for whatever
>         reason?
>
> These questions require an understanding of this specific issue and it
> should be understood that I am not asking these questions to the people
> here.

I'm fairly certain that the installer normally supports it, but that 
it's disabled in our installer (for every architecture). I don't know 
exactly why that is (Robert Millan made our installer, incl. preseed). 
Possibly it didn't work well on the YeeLoong.

> What people on this list (which is now the -dev list ;-) should be able
> to answer (or point to an answer) is:
>
>       * When did gNS base from Debian?
>       * Where can I find a version history of gNewSense deltas? Is this
>         the bazaar repo on savannah?

Normally, in Bazaar, but I don't think we keep the installer there (or 
anywhere else). We need to figure that one out (again).

> I hope this can be resolved; it would be a shame if users would have to
> give up privacy in order to gain freedom.

Most users don't need this feature, so it's more of a nice to have. Any 
help is appreciated, though.