[Buildroot] [PATCH 03/12] package/volume-key: new package

[Thomas Petazzoni]

On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 18:08:01 -0700
aduskett at gmail.com wrote:

> From: Adam Duskett <Aduskett at gmail.com>
> 
> The volume-key project provides a library for manipulating storage volume
> encryption keys and storing them separately from volumes, and an associated
> command-line tool, named volume_key.
> 
> The main goal of the software is to allow restoring access to an encrypted
> hard drive if the primary user forgets the passphrase. The encryption key back
> up can also be useful for extracting data after a hardware or software failure
> that corrupts the header of the encrypted volume, or to access the company
> data after an employee leaves abruptly.
> 
> Updated versions of udisks are dependent on this package.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adam Duskett <Aduskett at gmail.com>

Why is this package introduced ? According to udisks it was at some
point a dependency of libblockdev:

+	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_SYNC_4 # libblockdev -> volume-key -> cryptsetup

But I don't see where it is used in the libblockdev package.

Thomas
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