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On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Mark David Dumlao <madumlao@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 4:16 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Friday 30 Aug 2013 15:44:35 Tanstaafl wrote: |
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>>> On 2013-08-30 10:34 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> > On 30/08/2013 16:29, Tanstaafl wrote: |
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>>> >> Why would there be a problem if someone decided to create a 3rd party |
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>>> >> overlay *not* part of the official gentoo portage tree that contained |
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>>> >> *only* the zfs stuff, and when this overlay was installed combined with |
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>>> >> a zfs keyword for the kernel, portage would then pull in the required |
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>>> >> files, and automagically build a kernel with an up to date version of |
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>>> >> zfs properly and fully integrated? |
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>>> >> |
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>>> >> Would this not work, *and* have no problems with licensing? |
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>>> > |
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>>> > there is no problem with licensing in that case. |
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>>> > The ebuild could even go in the portage tree, as Gentoo is not |
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>>> > redistributing sources when it publishes an ebuild. |
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>>> Thanks Alan! Just the answer I wanted. |
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>>> Ok, so... how hard would this be then? What would the chances be that |
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>>> this could actually happen? I'll happily go open a bug for it if you |
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>>> think the work would be minimal... |
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>>> |
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>>> It seems to me that I can't be the only one who would like to see this |
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>>> happen? |
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>> Nope! I will vote for you. ;-) |
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>> -- |
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>> Regards, |
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>> Mick |
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> Sounds like an awful lot of trouble for a "problem" that's already solved by |
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> installing sys-kernel/module-rebuild and running "module-rebuild rebuild" |
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> after every kernel update, which is how nvidia, broadcom, and other |
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> kernel modules are dealt painlessly with anyways... |
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Well, if you follow Tanstaafl in the other thread, you'll see that he |
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wants ZFS to be integrated into the kernel, not existing as a kernel |
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module. |
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Rgds, |
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