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Author: Chris Dos
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To: devuan developers internal list
Subject: Re: [devuan-dev] ZFS Packages
On 6/28/18 6:28 AM, Chris Dos wrote:
> A few things have changed recently. Debian has added a lsb_release dependency
> in their 0.7.9-2 dkms package that specifically looks for Debian. So these
> packages will no longer work on Devuan.
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=900089
>
> It looks like some work has already been applied to providing the debian
> folder on github:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=891890
>
> It just seems like a good time to get into this again and perhaps have Devuan
> ZoL packages directly.
>
> I have my test VMs so I'm more then happy to test anything I can. But I just
> don't have the knowledge to be an official package maintainer. I'm not sure
> if anyone has time to get involved in this and start interfacing with the
> current development that is taking place to ensure Devuan will have a working
> solution.


I wanted to touch base again on this. I'm now having Devuan users contact me
regarding zfs not working on testing and are asking me how to get it working.

I know the Devuan Devs are hesitant to fork the ZFS packages since none of the
Devs are using it. However, the current packages are broken and do not work
on Devuan.

I run ZFS on quite a few systems and I have three zfs test VMs that I created.
I'm more then happy to test the forked packages before they are released to
the apt repository.

Bugs in question:
https://bugs.devuan.org//cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=14
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=826994
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=900089

    Chris