On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 12:56:50AM +0100, Germano Massullo wrote: > After having dealt for the n-th time with libvirt dependencies > messing up [1] with zfs packages installed from ZFS On Linux > repository, I wondered if we could just include them in Fedora > repository. > They are not in the Fedora Forbidden Items [2] list. > Fedora Wiki ZFS page [3] says: > "Fedora releases don't ship proper ZFS support included to kernel > because its license CDDL (Common Development and Distribution > License)[...]" > but since ZFS On Linux provide zfs-dkms package, I think this should > avoid any possible legal trouble between Linux kernel licence and > ZFS licence. > > What do you think about? > > [1]: libvirt-daemon-driver-storage installs > libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-zfs which requires zfs-fuse (from > Fedora repo. A package no longer upgraded by upstream dev). The > latter has Provides:/sbin/zfs, /sbin/mount.zfs that IMHO is the > cause of the conflict with the ZFS packages from ZFS On Linux. The > only way to solve the problem is to use "dnf swap zfs-fuse zfs" If zfs-fuse is no longer provided upstream I guess libvirt should stop depending on it. (Also libguestfs has an optional libguestfs-zfs subpackage that uses it.) This doesn't solve the general problem with ZFS licensing though. Only Oracle can do that at the stroke of a pen. Rich. > [2]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Forbidden_items > [3]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ZFS > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
