2011/12/13 Steven Chamberlain <ste...@pyro.eu.org>: >> But I'm still worried about current Wheezy users being forced to >> upgrade to 9.0 and hitting problems like #651624. > > Haha, I've quite a headache understanding all the combinations.
Relieved to see I'm not alone on that ;-) > A Squeeze ZFS user would have kfreebsd-8 8.1 and zfsutils 8.1, and may > like to: > > S1. upgrade to kfreebsd-8 8.2, and would need zfsutils 8.2 kfreebsd 8.2 is usable with zfsutils 8.1, they've got a different ZFS version but AFAICT they use the same ABI (14 vs 15). (in fact kfreebsd 8.2 is available in backports) > A current Wheezy user may still be using the kernel+ZFS from Squeeze, Nope. Latest kbdcontrol won't allow that (xterm transition). > but more likely they have the 8.2 version of both. They may want to: > > W1. keep kfreebsd-8 8.1 -- an upgrade to zfsutils 8.3 should not happen > due to Breaks? > W2. keep kfreebsd-8 8.2 -- an upgrade to zfsutils 8.3 should not happen > due to Breaks? Correct. They would have to remove kfreebsd 8.1. > But it will open the door for kfreebsd-8 8.3 to > soon replace it in Wheezy and in the installer. We can't really do that until FreeBSD 8.3 is released. Putting 9.0-0 snapshots in testing is tricky already because new updates have to preserve ABI (but 9.0 is due really soon now). > The migration *must* happen before new/existing Wheezy users (without > using Sid) can install/test ZFS with the newer kernels, particularly a > problem for the d-i images. I think lots of people (including myself!) > ought to be testing these as soon as possible, in the run-up to the > release of Wheezy and the new kernels upstream. Upstream were only > alerted to #650667 thanks to testing in Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. Yes. I'm really in favour of migrating ASAP. But it's scary... we should at least be sure that pure sid installs currently work. > The only other option I see is to split zfsutils so there is a separate > version for installing+running kfreebsd-8 8.2, although that kernel > would disappear anyway when 8.3 replaces it. That's a big hassle, and it'd only be temporary. > I guess bug #651624 is no longer of concern once the installer is using > kfreebsd-8 8.3; I think that was due to the kernel/zfsutils used by the > installer. Uhm I'm not so sure about that. Let's see if Christoph finds something... > Also it seems #644799 is fixed by newer zfsutils. Closing then. -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOfDtXM3jPzqBMAg+C_hkZYreUMcoPK=hqzpuodhcmk8pkc...@mail.gmail.com
