[aur-general] Merge request: zfs to zfs-git

[Jesus Alvarez]

Sorry typo, https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/zfs-linux-git/ is replaced
by zfs-git and should be deleted.


On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Jesus Alvarez <jeezusjr at gmail.com> wrote:

> So I had a look at the packages and here is what I found:
>
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/linux-zfs/ is very out-of-date and not
> maintained, therefore it should be deleted.
>
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/linux-zfs/ is replaced by zfs-git and
> should be deleted.
>
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/zfs-behlendorf-git/ is replaced by
> zfs-git and should be deleted.
>
> The dkms packages are definitely not maintained, but useful none the less
> as eventually someone would probably like to build ZFSonLinux with DKMS. I
> don't think they are named properly though. If they can be transferred to
> my user "demizer" in AUR, I would be happy to eventually provide proper
> packages as part of the ZFS support for Arch. If we agree to a maintainer
> transfer, could the packages please be renamed to:
>
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/zfs-modules-dkms/ renamed to zfs-dkms
>
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/spl-modules-dkms/ renamed to spl-dkms
>
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/zfs-tools/ renamed to zfs-utils-dkms
>
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/spl-tools/ renamed to spl-utils-dkms
>
> Thanks!
> Jesus A. (demizer)
>
>
> On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Nowaker <enwukaer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> We definitely need some further clean-up of zfs related package on AUR.
>> There are so much of packages that seem useless. @Jesus, since you are the
>> zfs expert here, could you confirm these packages are useless and should be
>> deleted from AUR?
>>
>> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/linux-zfs/ (2 years out of date)
>> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/zfs-linux-git/ (1 year no update)
>> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/zfs-behlendorf-git/ (3 years no
>> update)
>>
>> Also, there are two packages that seem to do the same - zfs-dkms and
>> zfs-modules-dkms. The latter is unmaintained (2 years out of date). Can you
>> confirm the latter should be deleted, altogether with other zfs-related
>> packages from the same maintainer?
>>
>> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/zfs-modules-dkms/
>> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/spl-modules-dkms/
>> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/zfs-tools/
>> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/spl-tools/
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> --
>> Kind regards,
>> Damian Nowak
>> StratusHost
>> www.AtlasHost.eu
>>
>
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