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Tasklist

FS#58294 - Feature: Get ZFS into the main Arch repository

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Martin (greencopper) - Saturday, 21 April 2018, 02:39 GMT
Last edited by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Sunday, 22 April 2018, 14:47 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

On the Arch wiki it states:

1) Due to potential legal incompatibilities between CDDL license of ZFS code and GPL of the Linux kernel ([2],CDDL-GPL,ZFS in Linux) - ZFS development is not supported by the kernel.

2) As a result: ZFS still resides in Arch User Repository and unofficial archzfs repository.

Just because ZFS development isn't supported by the kernel doesn't mean we can't have it in the official Arch repository! Are we saying that we can only have GPL software in the Arch repo? This doesn't make sense.

Both Debian, Void, and several other distributions has ZFS in their "main" repository in all branches, so it should be possible for Arch to do the same.

https://packages.debian.org/stretch/zfs-dkms

Having ZFS in AUR is a mess.

So feature request: Get ZFS DKMS into the main Arch repo.

Kindest regards
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Closed by  Eli Schwartz (eschwartz)
Sunday, 22 April 2018, 14:47 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Sunday, 22 April 2018, 14:47 GMT
Don't file reopen requests, this too is not how things work. We don't take requests for new packages, and if we did we wouldn't do so through the bugtracker. If you want to "discuss" things, well, the forums and bugtracker are open to discussion, but I doubt you'll have more luck there...

As for zfs-dkms, the reason it is not in the repos is because no Dev/TU is interested in it. I've corrected the wiki to remove the incorrect information; the person who initially wrote that is not a TU and does not speak for us...

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