On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Mark David Dumlao <madum...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 4:16 AM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Friday 30 Aug 2013 15:44:35 Tanstaafl wrote: >>> On 2013-08-30 10:34 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > On 30/08/2013 16:29, Tanstaafl wrote: >>> >> Why would there be a problem if someone decided to create a 3rd party >>> >> overlay *not* part of the official gentoo portage tree that contained >>> >> *only* the zfs stuff, and when this overlay was installed combined with >>> >> a zfs keyword for the kernel, portage would then pull in the required >>> >> files, and automagically build a kernel with an up to date version of >>> >> zfs properly and fully integrated? >>> >> >>> >> Would this not work, *and* have no problems with licensing? >>> > >>> > there is no problem with licensing in that case. >>> > The ebuild could even go in the portage tree, as Gentoo is not >>> > redistributing sources when it publishes an ebuild. >>> >>> Thanks Alan! Just the answer I wanted. >>> >>> Ok, so... how hard would this be then? What would the chances be that >>> this could actually happen? I'll happily go open a bug for it if you >>> think the work would be minimal... >>> >>> It seems to me that I can't be the only one who would like to see this >>> happen? >> >> Nope! I will vote for you. ;-) >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Mick > > Sounds like an awful lot of trouble for a "problem" that's already solved by > installing sys-kernel/module-rebuild and running "module-rebuild rebuild" > after every kernel update, which is how nvidia, broadcom, and other > kernel modules are dealt painlessly with anyways... >
Well, if you follow Tanstaafl in the other thread, you'll see that he wants ZFS to be integrated into the kernel, not existing as a kernel module. Rgds, -- FdS Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ • LOPSA Member #15248 • Blog : http://pepoluan.tumblr.com • Linked-In : http://id.linkedin.com/in/pepoluan
