[Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Comparing the Debian and Ubuntu version of spl-linux

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Aron Xu]
> Colin and I worked on the issues today and we are targeting to sync
> spl/0.6.5.8-2 to Ubuntu yakkety directly. As for zfs the merge work
> will continue, but it's too late in Ubuntu's release cycle, hopefully
> we could do the real sync early next one.

Nice.  Perhaps you can invoite Colin and others from the Ubuntu team to
#debian-zfs?

But it is unclear from the changelog why we integreated the hostid code.
What is it good for?  Why have we not needed it before?  And why on
earth is a host specific unique ID file a conffile on Ubuntu?

And does it really make sense to have that code in the postinst?  I
would imagine it made more sense to move it into a separate
script/programm called from the postinst, and try to get the script into
the coreutils package alongside the hostid program.  Or perhaps into
glibc, which implement the gethostid() library function actually reading
/etc/hostid.

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen