On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 6:25 AM Andrea Bolognani <abologna(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Thu, 2020-11-19 at 16:56 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 8:14 AM Andrea Bolognani <abologna(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> > As another data point, Debian currently carries a patch[1] which
> > allows us to enable the ZFS driver without installing the ZFS
> > packages in the build environment: this is necessary because, due to
> > its license, ZFS is kept outside of the main Debian repository.
> >
> > Being able to use something like
> >
> > -Dprog_zfs=/sbin/zfs -Dprog_zfspool=/sbin/zfspool
> >
> > to achieve the same result would allow us to drop that patch, which I
> > would be *extremely* happy about :)
>
> The way I solved *that* specific problem was to use zfs-fuse at
> build-time and have runtime work with either implementation. That
> should work for you too, since Debian has zfs-fuse in main.
This sounds intriguing. Can you please point me to the code?
I build libvirt for Debian/Ubuntu using a modified version of the
upstream spec file (if y'all are interested, I can upstream those
modifications so we could build and test that way in CI too), but
here's what I did:
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https://pagure.io/libvirt-deb/blob/90d9373670564341503f768880e996f01da596...
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https://pagure.io/libvirt-deb/blob/90d9373670564341503f768880e996f01da596...
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https://pagure.io/libvirt-deb/blob/90d9373670564341503f768880e996f01da596...
For work, we *only* want to use ZoL at runtime, but this can be done
where zfs-fuse could be a valid candidate too.
It's not terribly difficult to translate this into debian/control goop. :)
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