debian/README.Source

   1 zfs-linux for Debian
   2
   3 Using DKMS is the recommended way of installing this kernel
   4 module, however if you do have the need of building deb/udeb
   5 packages containing the binary kernel module, here is the way.
   6 Be careful when proceed with this way, as your attention is
   7 required when kernel ABI get changed on target system that this
   8 module needs to be rebuilt and it needs to replace the originally
   9 installed package with this newly built one on target system.
  10
  11 You may first install all required build dependency on a machine
  12 that runs the very same kernel as on your target system, then
  13 execute following command at the top level directory of the
  14 decompressed debian source package. Do not install the generated
  15 package with kernels that have different configuration, which is
  16 not supported and likely to break things.
  17
  18   * deb packages:
  19     fakeroot debian/rules override_dh_binary-modules
  20   * udeb packages:
  21     fakeroot debian/rules override_dh_binary-modules-udeb
  22
  23 Please be aware that building zfs kernel modules require a
  24 successful build of spl kernel modules, so you must install
  25 spl-dkms and configure it correctly on the builder machine before
  26 building this package.
  27
  28 udeb packages for libraries and utilities are not generated by
  29 default, if you need them then rebuild this package passing the
  30 variable BUILD_UDEB=true.
  31
  32 zfs-initramfs is built on linux-any to avoid un-wanted installation
  33 on non-linux architectures that do not need it.
  34
  35  -- Aron Xu <aron@debian.org>  Sun, 14 July 2013 04:00:12 +0800