zfs-dkms is missing dependency on build-essential

[Paul Boven]

Release: 15.10 Wily Werewolf

Package versions:
zfs-dkms: 0.6.4.2-0ubuntu1

On a newly installed machine, I did 'apt-get install zfs-dkms zfsutils-linux'.

Expected: To have the ZFS kernel module and utilities installed.

Result: failed, due to compiler etc. not being installed.

It's probably sufficient to add a dependency on build-essential to the zfs-dkms package.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[RoyK (roysk)]

probably adding the dependency to the spl-dkms would be best, since that's the first to be built

[Colin Ian King (colin-king)]

One can install zfs just using "sudo apt-get install zfsutils-linux" without having to specifically install zfs-dkms. However, this is indeed a bug so it needs fixing.

In fact, this is similar to bug 1536299. The issue is that the dkms build runs a configure script that test compiles a simple C test program and this fails because the linker can't link the program because libc-dev is not yet installed at that point. The fix is to add that as a dependency and all should be fine.

I've uploaded a fix into ppa:colin-king/zfs-wily-lp1513917, can you test this out with the following on a clean machine:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:colin-king/zfs-wily-lp1513917
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install zfs-dkms zfsutils-linux

..and let me know if this resolves the issue for you

[Colin Ian King (colin-king)]

This is indeed a duplicate of 1536299, I've double checked this and the problem is now fixed.