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Brian Behlendorf 0f237a4379 Add Debian and Slackware style packaging via alien
The long term fix for Debian and Slackware style packaging is
to add native support for building these packages.  Unfortunately,
that is a large chunk of work I don't have time for right now.
That said it would be nice to have at least basic packages for
these distributions.

As a quick short/medium term solution I've settled on using alien
to convert the RPM packages to DEB or TGZ style packages.  The
build system has been updated with the following build targets
which will first build RPM packages and then convert them as
needed to the target package type:

  make rpm: Create .rpm packages
  make deb: Create .deb packages
  make tgz: Create .tgz packages
  make pkg: Create the right package type for your distribution

The solution comes with lot of caveats and your mileage may vary.
But basically the big limitations are that the resulting packages:

  1) Will not have the correct dependency information.
  2) Will not include the kernel version in the release.
  3) Will not handle all differences between distributions.

But the resulting packages should be easy to install and remove
from your system and take care of running 'depmod -a' and such.
As I said at the top this is not the right long term solution.
If any of the upstream distribution maintainers want to jump in
and help do this right for their distribution I'd love the help.
2010-07-28 09:37:04 -07:00
cmd Restrict usage of -fstack-check option 2010-07-23 10:38:07 -07:00
config Add Debian and Slackware style packaging via alien 2010-07-28 09:37:04 -07:00
etc Remove promise example config replace with a supermicro config 2010-03-11 14:04:12 -08:00
lib Merge commit 'refs/top-bases/zfs-branch' into zfs-branch 2010-07-23 11:42:23 -07:00
man Add man pages to the build system and packages. 2009-12-11 16:49:25 -08:00
module Merge branch 'fix-branch' into refs/top-bases/zfs-branch 2010-06-29 16:57:41 -07:00
patches Add e2fsprogs patch for detecting ZFS uberblocks until it appears upstream. 2009-11-02 15:04:43 -08:00
scripts Only try to unload modules whose use count is 0 2010-07-17 16:00:54 -07:00
.gitignore Ignore unsigned module build products 2010-03-09 14:14:09 -08:00
.topdeps Update dependency fix-pthreads changes to fix-stack-ztest 2010-06-29 11:27:33 -07:00
.topmsg Reduce stack used by ztest 2010-06-29 11:25:08 -07:00
AUTHORS Add AUTHORS to master branch 2010-05-18 14:55:01 -07:00
COPYING Revert accidental change to COPYING, move authors to master branch. 2010-05-18 14:41:47 -07:00
COPYRIGHT Update COPYRIGHT to reference zpios CDDL exceptions. 2010-05-18 14:25:28 -07:00
ChangeLog Prep for 0.4.9 tag update META, README, ChangeLog. 2010-05-21 15:11:49 -07:00
DISCLAIMER Resolve conflict 2010-05-18 10:42:54 -07:00
GIT Refresh type in topgit git://* reference 2009-01-26 21:58:32 -08:00
META Update META to version 0.5.0 2010-06-14 15:45:23 -07:00
Makefile.am Add Debian and Slackware style packaging via alien 2010-07-28 09:37:04 -07:00
OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE Add CDDL license file 2008-12-01 14:49:34 -08:00
README.markdown Add basic README 2010-06-29 14:35:21 -07:00
ZFS.RELEASE Update core ZFS code from build 121 to build 141. 2010-05-28 13:45:14 -07:00
autogen.sh Core target arch support for conditional compilation of SUBDIRs 2009-06-08 16:07:43 -07:00
configure.ac Add Debian and Slackware style packaging via alien 2010-07-28 09:37:04 -07:00
zfs-modules.spec.in Minor spec file cleanup for RHEL6 package dependency. 2010-05-21 15:08:08 -07:00
zfs.spec.in Update zfs.spec.in to reference updated README.markdown file 2010-07-01 10:36:00 -07:00

README.markdown

Native ZFS for Linux! ZFS is an advanced file system and volume manager which was originally developed for Solaris. It has been successfully ported to FreeBSD and now there is a functional Linux ZFS kernel port too. The port currently includes a fully functional and stable SPA, DMU, and ZVOL with a ZFS Posix Layer (ZPL) on the way!

Documentation for building, configuring, and using ZFS can be found at: http://wiki.github.com/behlendorf/zfs/