[Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] What more can be done to get ZFS into Debian?

[Craig Sanders]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 05:27:59AM -0500, Richard Laager wrote:
> Would there be any value in building a script (and eventually shipping a
> package) which creates an installer image with ZFS support? 

speaking of scripts related to the zfs packages, today i finally got
annoyed enough by the time it takes to compile zfs-dkms on all my
machines (including a few VMs) to create a script that uses `equivs` to
build spl-kernel-modules and zfs-kernel-modules pure binary packages by
copying them out of /lib/modules/kernel-version/updates/dkms/

it's a pretty ugly hack, but it works well enough for my needs. and it
was a lot easier than figuring out why `dkms mkdeb` doesn't do anything
useful and fixing it.

now i only have to have zfs-dksm and spl-dkms on my fastest machine, and
can scp the binary-only debs to my other machines for installation with
'dpkg -i'


anyway, i've attached a copy to this message in case anyone wants a
copy. it's public domain, so feel free to do whatever you want with it.
the script is documented in the comments.

run it like this:

    build-zfs-modules-for.sh [ZFS-VERSION] [KERNEL-VERSION] [PKG-REVISION]

it assumes that the zfs-dkms and spl-dkms packages have already been
compiled for the KERNEL-VERSION.

craig

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craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>
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