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

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Aron Xu]
> Want to mention, the sync is done today (need some hours to be
> populated to -release archive):
>
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spl-linux/0.6.5.8-2

Very nice.

Unfortunately the autopkgtest check I added causes all tests to be
disabled.  As can be seen on
<URL: https://ci.debian.net/data/packages/unstable/amd64/s/spl-linux/20160928_124118.autopkgtest.log.gz >,
"SKIP Test requires machine-level isolation but testbed does not provide
that".

And as <URL: http://bugs.debian.org/834572 > explain, the cause is that
Ubuntu and Debian run the tests in different environments, Debian uses
LXC while Ubuntu uses KVM.

I guess we should disable the check.sh part until Debian provide
machine-level isolation on ci.debian.net.  What do the rest of you
think?  Is rewriting check.sh to not try to load the kernel modules a
viable option?

Btw, looking at the response to bug #595790 when I reassigned it to
glibc, where the mode seem to be for depricating gethostid() and ask
everyone to use better ways to get an unique ID, I suspect we would be
better off dropping the /etc/hostid approach and rewrite
module/spl/spl-generic.c to fetch the ID from a different file.

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen