WOLK RPMS for Red Hat EL3/4 and Fedora

Hi Marc,

I'm currently in the process of building WOLK RPMS for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux/Fedora (one of your wish list items.)  For configuration management
purposes, I never install anything on my servers that are not packaged as
RPMS. It would help me greatly in this endeavor if I could have access to
the broken-out patch sets for WOLK-2.4-4.16s and WOLK-2.6-3.0.

There are two reasons this would help.  The first is that I'm struggling a
bit with implementing WOLK in place of Red Hat's highly patched kernel.
Specifically, Red Hat implements exec-shield, a PaX want-to-be, and I'm
encountering difficulties.  The second reason is that I can conditionally
apply patches during the RPM build process with command line switches.  This
nicely solves the issue where two version of a patch (grsecurity, openswan,
etc.) might exist and one is preferred over the other by various users.

I'm currently focusing on the 2.4 version of WOLK (hence my flurry of
messages), as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 uses this kernel (actually 2.4.21.)
Red Hat has just released v4 as a beta (using kernel version 2.6.8.1), and
I've started playing around with it a bit.  I'll eventually move to this, so
I figure I'll build the RPMS for this version now also.

After I get my firewall/gateway configured the way I want, (the reason I'm
using WOLK), I'm thinking I'll take a little time to put up a WOLK web site
(your other wish list item.) But more on that later...

If space is an issue, I could probably throw up an FTP server, but since I'm
very security conscious, I'd rather not do so in a hurry if it's not
necessary.  Again, once I've completed configuration of my firewall this
would be easier to do.

Thanks for your help

-- Carl


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