Update for Fedora 17?

[aheadley]

This is probably not the best place to ask this but I saw that you maintain the python-rtslib package for Fedora, are you intending to release another update for the package on Fedora 17 or will it be left at 2.1.fb14? I ask because I'm trying out ZFS on Linux and one of the updates to rtslib fixes a iSCSI block device issue with ZFS devices (openzfs/zfs#515). I see updates to the f17 branch for it here http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/python-rtslib.git/log/?h=f17 but I don't know enough about the Fedora packaging process to know whether that means an updated package will actually be released.

[agrover]

Latest rtslib relies on kernel-3.6 so it can't go into F17 until F17 gets that kernel. I forgot this and built f17 packages. Once 3.6 is in updates-testing repo I will re-tag rtslib into updates-testing, and then into updates after they sit for a week. Unfortunately there aren't any releases that contain the zfs fix that don't also have other bugs, or require kernel 3.6.

You could also edit your installed rtslib/utils.py by hand to support the ZFS major if you didn't want to wait. HTH.

[aheadley]

Was hoping to avoid the hand-editing but oh well. Thanks for the quick reply!