[illumos-Developer] webrev: 278 get rid zfs of python and pyzfs dependencies

[Jason King]

2010/11/13 Edward Tomasz Napierała <trasz at freebsd.org>:
> Wiadomość napisana przez Jason King w dniu 2010-11-12, o godz. 16:09:
>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Edho P Arief <edhoprima at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Jason King <jason.abrian.king at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> That is not what this is about.   There is no issue with maintaining
>>>> python bindings for zfs.  The issue is the actual /sbin/zfs command
>>>> itself requires python to operate fully.  In other words, you cannot
>>>> administer zfs completely without python.  This is about removing that
>>>> dependency.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'm quite sure that the entire zfs stack in FreeBSD doesn't require
>>> python at all...
>>
>> A number of subcommands invoke python to process them (IIRC zfs allow
>> is one of them).  FreeBSD must not be using those.  Regardless, this
>> is not about removing zfs bindings for python, but the dependency of
>> /sbin/zfs on python.
>
> In FreeBSD, the part of functionality that depends on Python was moved
> into the Ports Collection.  Which means that "zfs allow" results in:
>
> $ zfs allow
> internal error: /usr/lib/zfs/pyzfs.py not found
>    install sysutils/py-zfs port to correct this
>
> After installing that package, zfs command becomes fully functional.

Hopefully soon with this change, that will no longer be necessary
(assuming fbsd uses the work in question of course).