Re: RFS: fsprotect

[Stefanos Harhalakis <v13@v13.gr>]

Hello,

I'm replying using a copy of the message from google groups, so it is expected 
to break threading. Please CC me in your replies.

On Monday 23 March 2009, v13 wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Stefanos Harhalakis wrote:
> > I'll add it when it is available. Since this is a debian native package,
> > I'm waiting for it to enter debian (if it ever happens) before creating a
> > page.
>
> Whis is this native? From what I understood of the package, there is
> nothing Debian-specific in this package, why couldn't it be used in
> other distributions?

In the original message I wrote:

"I've made this a native debian package since it is 100% targeted for debian. 
It requires integration for each distribution so it cannot be a generic 
package."

The package consists of an init script, two initramfs scripts and two helper 
scripts, so I consider it to be 100% tied to debian and debian-based 
distributions. I cannot provide a set of scripts for other OSes and this is 
not an program that one can "install". It requires integration to the 
distribution. It needs to run the init script exactly after the local 
partitions are mounted but before anything else is run (so it depends on 
init-scripts numbering), it requires support for /fastboot etc.

This tool is developed for debian systems and only tested on debian. If anyone 
is willing to port it to other distributions I'll be glad to help but I 
won't/can't do (and/or support) that.

The only cross-platform approach I can think of, would be a simple blog entry 
with some descriptive text or parts of the source code (after all, it 
consists of only two shell scripts (plus two helper scripts)).

Anyway, let's assume that there is no web page at all. I can remove that from 
the control file if it would help. I consider the web page to be a minor 
issue compared to the advantages of having such a package available.