Re: ZFS part of Guix? RFC?

[Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli]

On Fri, 26 Nov 2021 16:28:04 +0100
Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org> wrote:
> But I wonder if a license that forbid binary redistribution would
> still be considered free or not.
When we'll have more infos on if that is free or if we consider it as
free until proven otherwise, we still have two remaining issues to deal
with:
- On some architectures (for instance i686) the kernel module doesn't
  build. Should we disable the module? Add support for these
  architectures? Or disable zfs as a dependency of Gnome?
- Images with the zfs modules won't be redistributable. So if we keep
  the ability to build the zfs module, would it be possible to add
  opt-in or opt-out settings to make sure that the images are still
  redistributable without violating the GPL?
  Or will all users always need to use transformations for that?

Here's the build error I have with i686:
> make -C
> /gnu/store/c5n1drdj3j780r6yxnqfldifkmwdz01d-linux-libre-module-builder-5.14.21/lib/modules/build
> M=`pwd`  CONFIG_ZFS=m modules make[3]: Entering directory
> '/gnu/store/c5n1drdj3j780r6yxnqfldifkmwdz01d-linux-libre-module-builder-5.14.21/lib/modules/build'
> arch/x86/Makefile:78: arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu: No such file or
> directory make[3]: *** No rule to make target
> 'arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu'.  Stop.

Denis.

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