TrueCrypt

[Garrett Cooper]

On 12/22/08, Alexander Logvinov <freebsd at akavia.ru> wrote:
> Hello!
>
>  Anyone working on TrueCrypt port? Here is port of 6.1 version based
>  on old ports posted in this list:
>
>  http://www.logvinov.ru/files/dist/truecrypt.tar
>
>  It builds fine on my 7-STABLE, but I have some stability troubles
>  while coping files. Maybe someone wants to test it? :) Thanks!
>
> --
> WBR,
>  Alexander

Truecrypt apparently wasn't officially put into the ports tree. In the
previous episode we went through, this was the end result:

http://www.nabble.com/TrueCrypt-5.0-td15394497.html

If you want TrueCrypt to be in the ports tree, I highly suggest
sending an enhancement PR request. Otherwise you can hack away at the
provided ports files that miwi@ contributed.

As for support requests, the info you provided wasn't enough.
- Any time when you need support on something, you should at least
provide `uname -rsm'.
- With anything ports related you should also provide your last sync date.
- With anything CURRENT (or STABLE if you build from sources) you
should provide your last sync and build date.
- Error messages and data with expected output is also incredibly important.

Before we get off on that path though, I'd first talk to the project
folks to see if the issue is known (since it's not really supported
here, unofficially or officially), then if the issue is completely
FreeBSD specific, I'd come back and ask for some more help here and
then we can ping-pong info back and forth between us and the
maintainers until the issue is resolved. I'd make sure to provide at
least a bare minimum of the above information to the maintainers,
unless they request something different.

Cheers,
-Garrett