From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31C6E1381F3 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 14:45:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 72251E104E; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 14:45:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from homiemail-a94.g.dreamhost.com (caibbdcaaaaf.dreamhost.com [208.113.200.5]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 673B3E1038 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 14:45:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from homiemail-a94.g.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by homiemail-a94.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB10238A072 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 07:44:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=libertytrek.org; h= message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s= libertytrek.org; bh=J1F6CVucY3J4Wo88jUq0uFxZ1Go=; b=QYj203bIB7NE EY9qkYpyIY9c4lOvxUeWXeyfhbeDacMjG+YnbxEXw+7EO+8L/aRgwWd+rK2CPFz9 5sWk7esY++tP0YY5WEudHPiYbyzS4k9v1oAxVN7BwbrILjCTfV4H3fyDRjraYGjp njM2b6duCy7lLxYxbw3FjsbET8aeB6M= Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [159.63.145.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: tanstaafl@libertytrek.org) by homiemail-a94.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9DB4838A071 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 07:44:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5220AFD3.6060402@libertytrek.org> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 10:44:35 -0400 From: Tanstaafl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunderbird/17.0.7 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo References: <439435.46090.bm@smtp104.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <521C42BA.8020201@gmail.com> <521c5afb.YPRgKxBo0FA+VIpR%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> <521C6539.1020804@gmail.com> <521c6c8e.2e4CKLbW/r8l63fJ%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> <521D0DE1.2010104@gmail.com> <521d14f1./s0f964VcPL8bKWo%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> <521DD7D4.60709@libertytrek.org> <521DDB1F.5010306@gmail.com> <5220AC67.3080500@libertytrek.org> <5220AD8D.5080306@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5220AD8D.5080306@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c30b1734-a419-4a3c-bd8f-f2be58e9723e X-Archives-Hash: e14ddb2156733e8d52a818bea86bb1c2 On 2013-08-30 10:34 AM, Alan McKinnon 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?