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visionviper

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Registered: 2025-06-29

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[SOLVED] zfsutils-linux backport not showing via apt

I have a system running daedalus with an Arc A380 graphics card. To use the graphics card I had to switch my kernel to the 6.12 backport. Easy enough, went super smooth. Graphics card drivers and everything seems to be working now. Next task was to get zfs updated because I had previously installed the regular stable 2.1.11. But that shouldn't be a problem, looks like there should be a 2.3 backport available of zfsutils-linux. But no matter how I try to install it, I don't seem to see it.

My apt sources:

deb http://us.deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus           main contrib
deb http://us.deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-updates   main
deb http://us.deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-security  main
deb http://us.deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-backports main non-free-firmware

I'm honestly at a loss for how I had no problem installing the kernel backport but somehow zfsutils-linux is only available as the stable 2.1 version.

 ~$ apt search zfsutils-linux
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
zfsutils-linux/stable,now 2.1.11-1+deb12u1 amd64 [installed]
  command-line tools to manage OpenZFS filesystems

rbit

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Registered: 2018-06-12

Posts: 62  

Re: [SOLVED] zfsutils-linux backport not showing via apt

`apt-cache policy zfsutils-linux` should show:
  Version table:
     2.3.1-1~bpo12+1 100
     2.1.11-1+deb12u1 500
...
(note this requires "contrib" on your daedalus-backports apt sources line)
`apt install zfsutils-linux -t=daedalus-backports` should install version 2.3.1-1

visionviper

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Registered: 2025-06-29

Posts: 2  

Re: [SOLVED] zfsutils-linux backport not showing via apt

(note this requires "contrib" on your daedalus-backports apt sources line)

Ahhh that's what I was missing. Thank you so much! After adding and doing an apt update it shows up now.