[Users] Building freeswan/x.509 without rebuilding the kernel?

From: Andrew Leahy <aleahy(at)knox.edu>
Date: Wed Mar 19 2003 - 15:36:44 EST

Hello,

I've been using the freeswan RPM's with x.509 patches available from www.freeswan.ca on my RH 7.3 system. However, I upgraded my kernel RPM's to avoid the recently-discovered Linux kernel exploit and found that there weren't any available RPM's for my kernel version. According to the documentation in the freeswan/x.509 source, the other option involves patching and recompiling the kernel (or at least all of the modules)--something I'd rather not do on my 300 Mhz system . . .

As far as I can tell, the freeswan and freeswan/x.509 kernel RPM's only contain a handful of modules, so it seems like it should be possible to build just the required modules without the rest of the kernel. Does anybody have any ideas for how to do this? Better yet, does anybody have spec files for generating the kernel modules and utility RPMs?

Thanks for your assistance.

Andrew Leahy

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