ZFS does not package systemd unit files in Debian even with --enable-systemd

[jwittlincohen]

System information

Type	Version/Name
Distribution Name	Debian
Distribution Version	Stretch (9.1)
Linux Kernel	4.9.0-3-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.30-2+deb9u3 (2017-08-06) x86_64
Architecture	AMD64
ZFS Version	0.7.0-1
SPL Version	0.7.0-1

Describe the problem you're observing

Regardless of my ./configure settings, the instructions to build custom kmod packages fails to package systemd unit files. Instead, sysvinit scripts are packaged. In order to force the use of systemd, I compiled with:

./configure --enable-systemd --with-systemdunitdir=/lib/systemd/system --with-systemdpresetdir=/lib/systemd/system-preset --with-systemdmodulesloaddir=/lib/modules-load.d

Nonetheless, the sysvinit scripts are packaged:

root@debian-vm:~# dpkg-query -L zfs
/.
/etc
/etc/default
/etc/default/zfs
/etc/init.d
/etc/init.d/zfs-import
/etc/init.d/zfs-mount
/etc/init.d/zfs-share
 #/etc/init.d/zfs-zed

No systemd unit files are packed, and as expected, there are no ZFS unit files in /lib/systemd/system

root@debian-vm:~# ls -la /lib/systemd/system | grep zfs
root@debian-vm:~# 

However, if I run #make install DESTDIR=/tmp/zfs, the systemd unit files are installed to '/lib/systemd/system'

root@debian-vm:/tmp/zfs/lib/systemd/system# ls -la /tmp/zfs/lib/systemd/system
total 32
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep  1 00:17 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Sep  1 00:17 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  491 Sep  1 00:17 zfs-import-cache.service
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  448 Sep  1 00:17 zfs-import-scan.service
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  381 Sep  1 00:17 zfs-mount.service
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  363 Sep  1 00:17 zfs-share.service
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   76 Sep  1 00:17 zfs.target

Thus, this appears to be a packaging issue.

[BlinkyStitt]

Just ran into this on Ubuntu 16.04.3. Worked around the issue by just using the init scripts:

update-rc.d zfs-import defaults
update-rc.d zfs-import enable
update-rc.d zfs-mount defaults
update-rc.d zfs-mount enable
update-rc.d zfs-zed defaults
update-rc.d zfs-zed enable
update-rc.d zfs-share defaults
update-rc.d zfs-share enable