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Author: Daniel Reurich
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To: devuan developers internal list, Chris Dos
Subject: Re: [devuan-dev] ZFS Packages
Hi Chris,

do you have a git repo with the changes?

Thanks,
    Daniel


On 17/10/18 12:51, Chris Dos wrote:
> Looks like Debian has updated the bug about the missing sysvinit packages from
> important to serious. Maybe they will get this done sooner then later.
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=826994
>
> I'm hoping they will apply the Devuan compatibility patch as well, then we
> will not have to fork the packages.
>
> Saying that, I've made packages for jessie-backports-sloppy (I don't think
> Devuan has a sloppy though), ascii-backports, beowulf, and ceres. The
> packages and the source can be found here:
> https://cloud.chrisdos.com/index.php/s/eYbqWeKaXNJxJWr
>
> The same source was used on all four releases and the packages were built
> inside each release and seemed to boot up fine using a VM with a six drive zfs
> rpool root along with another 30 drive pool.
>
> Since SPL and ZFS are tightly coupled together, we should supply the SPL
> packages along with the ZFS packages. If we do not supply SPL, then if a
> newer version of SPL comes out it will cause ZFS to have issues.
>
> The 0.8.x zfs series will have a merged SPL and ZFS so this will be moot in
> the next version.
>
> I'm kinda thinking it would be good to wait a couple of weeks to see what
> happens with Debian before pushing these packages out. I know there is
> breakage right now and it will cause a root based zfs system to not even boot,
> so may just put these packages somewhere that someone can access them if they
> need to, or perhaps proposed or experimental.
>
> I'm still crossing my fingers that Debian will do the right thing so these
> will not have to be forked.
>
>     Chris

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