On 14/10/2025 08:21, Marc Schiffbauer wrote:
This news item is about the zfs-kmod merge into sys-fs/zfs.
2025-10-14-zfs-merge/2025-10-14-zfs-merge.en.txt:
Title: OpenZFS packages merged
Author: Marc Schiffbauer <[email protected]>
Posted: 2025-10-14
Revision: 1
News-Item-Format: 2.0
Display-If-Installed: sys-fs/zfs
Display-If-Installed: sys-fs/zfs-kmod
To simplify maintenance and system administration, sys-fs/zfs-kmod has been
merged into sys-fs/zfs starting from version 2.4.0_rc2-r1.
If you are using in-kernel modules from a custom built kernel you should
unset the modules USE flag for sys-fs/zfs to not build and install
-> in order to not> kernel modules via sys-fs/zfs.
If you were using sys-fs/zfs-kmod and sys-fs/zfs before, you have not to
-> you do not have to do> do anything special while upgrading as the
package manager will take
care of deinstalling sys-fs/zfs-kmod before upgrading to the new
sys-fs/zfs version containing the modules.
Unless the user has sys-fs/zfs-kmod in the world file, then the PM will
report a blocker that needs manual resolving. In which case the user
would have to run "emerge --deselect sys-fs/zfs-kmod" or similar.
Best regards,
Nowa
