Bug 129926

Summary: please make cryptsetup statically linked and put it in /sbin
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Russell Coker <russell>
Component: cryptsetupAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
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Fixed In Version: 0.1-4 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Patch to cryptsetup.spec that causes cryptsetup to be statically linked none

Description Russell Coker 2004-08-14 11:37:44 UTC 
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Description of problem:
I would like to use cryptsetup for creating encrypted block devices.  To do this in a useful manner requires that cryptsetup be available before most of the block devices are used (IE when only the root fs is mounted).  This means that the binary needs to be moved out of /usr, I think that /usr/sbin is the best location (/bin is not appropriate as a user who lacks administrative privs can't use it).

For an encrypted root file system we need to run cryptsetup from the initrd, so it needs to be statically linked.

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How reproducible:
Always

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Comment 1 W. Michael Petullo 2004-08-28 19:00:32 UTC 
Created attachment 103210 [details]
Patch to cryptsetup.spec that causes cryptsetup to be statically linked
Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2004-08-31 06:00:08 UTC 
Fixed in 0.1-3.
Comment 3 W. Michael Petullo 2004-09-02 02:02:42 UTC 
0.1-3 still seems to contain a dynamically linked cryptsetup:

[root@imp permissions.d]# rpm -q cryptsetup
cryptsetup-0.1-3
[root@imp permissions.d]# ldd /sbin/cryptsetup 
	libdevmapper.so.1.00 => /lib/libdevmapper.so.1.00 (0x0fe70000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x0fd28000)
	/lib/ld.so.1 => /lib/ld.so.1 (0x30000000)

I'd like to reopen this bug but I am unable to.
Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2004-09-02 02:05:53 UTC 
Oops, that's what I get for misreading; 0.1-3 is just statically
linked for moving to the root fs.
Comment 5 W. Michael Petullo 2004-09-02 15:00:05 UTC 
The patch I proposed in comment #1 should do it.  

Ideally, we should probably add a flag to the configure script that
turns on or off dynamically linking and get the patch up stream.
Comment 6 Bill Nottingham 2004-10-13 03:56:47 UTC 
Fixed in -4.