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

[Turbo Fredriksson]

On Apr 22, 2016, at 2:00 PM, Craig Sanders wrote:

> 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.

https://github.com/FransUrbo/debian-dkms/commit/89bf3dca26f5b49cb37fcb49359caa1605e9ae45

On an older dkms, don't know if it still works.

> 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'

In my packages, I create a "zfs-modules-source", which is used by
"module-assistant", which in turn creates a "zfs-modules-KVER" package.
I only create it for the kernel I'm running myself though, but it's
way better than dkms.
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