[Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] WIP branch for ZFS 0.7.0

[Fabian Grünbichler]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 02:41:35PM +0200, Fabian Grünbichler wrote:
> hello,
> 
> I started a WIP branch for updating the zfs packages in unstable to 0.7.
> 
> I did some rough testing together with my WIP branch for SPL 0.7.0, and
> basic operations seem to work fine.
> 
> not done in my branch/tag:
> - check d/copyright for updates
> - generate new changelog
> - incorporate man page fixes I submitted upstream to get rid of some
>   lintian warnings
> - merge 0.7.1

just a short update, I just pushed a new tag containing
- update to 0.7.1
- incorporate fixes merged into master
- generate changelogs

still missing is the d/copyright update ;)

> 
> points I'd like to discuss:
> 
> 1.) /bin vs /sbin
> 
> how should we handle /dev/zfs and the read-only zfs/zpool commands being
> user accessible upstream since 0.7? moving the zfs and zpool binaries to
> /bin and putting a compat symlink in /sbin should work AFAICT
> 
> 2.) zfs-test
> 
> the new zfs-test package I introduced is in a rather rough shape. e.g.,
> the upstream default location for most of it is /usr/share/zfs , which
> seems plain wrong to me. documentation is also rather lacking.
> 
> alternatively, instead of introducing a new package we could just not
> install those files altogether (in 0.6.5, those files which are already
> in the sources back then where installed as part of zfsutils-linux, also
> into /usr/share/zfs).
> 

feedback still welcome, especially on the latter point.