Use the Garage for what exactly? Truecrypt; well no real point since I'm not having to write anything. It is just a port.
Ntfs/Cifs kernel modules, same no real point.

I use the Garage for projects that are pretty much customized or built for Maemo, not for ports. For example Wizard Mounter has a Garage area.

As for getting them into Extras, it takes a bit of time. It took me a couple days just to figure out how to get cifs/ntfs/truecrypt to even compile and work. I have a ton of other things going on in my life right now, and so I released them in this thread so that others could use them; until I had some time to investigate how to debianize the kernel modules. I wasn't even sure I would be able to properly debianize the kernel modules (hence the start of this thread).

It has taken me a couple more days of time to figure out how to get them to be debianized and compile properly on the builders so that they would be in extras. So, yes everything will end up in Extras eventually. In fact right now, I've been trying to get both ntfs & cifs into extras-testing, but apparently the promoter mechanism is on the fritz. ;-(


I would totally disagree. Having an encrypted file system is very important even if you can't completely secure the machine yet (i.e. swap & ram). I keep important files in my TC container. I rarely need access to them, but in the event I do need access to them, I can get to them from either my Windows desktops, Linux server or now from my n900. TC is a "key" part of the solution. If I lose my n900, my important data is secure. ;-D

Nathan