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iscsitarget package

[RM] iscsitarget should be removed from Yakkety

Bug #1613758 reported by Tim Gardner
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iscsitarget (Ubuntu)
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Ubuntu ubuntu-16.10
Yakkety
Fix Released
Undecided
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Ubuntu ubuntu-16.10

Bug Description

iscsitarget no longer appears to be maintained. The last Debian upload was Oct 2014. This package no longer builds the DKMS module against linux v4.6 through v4.8 and is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain. Furthermore, there is now support for SCSI targets in the mainline kernel.

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Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)
description: updated
Changed in iscsitarget (Ubuntu):
milestone: none → ubuntu-16.10
description: updated
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Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) wrote :

Subscribed ubuntu-archive team as per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/PackageArchive#Removing_Packages

Remove subscription from ubuntu-foundations-team.

summary: - iscsitarget should be removed from Yakkety
+ [RM] iscsitarget should be removed from Yakkety
Changed in iscsitarget (Ubuntu Yakkety):
status: New → Confirmed
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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

Removing packages from yakkety:
 iscsitarget 1.4.20.3+svn502-2ubuntu4 in yakkety
  iscsitarget 1.4.20.3+svn502-2ubuntu4 in yakkety amd64
  iscsitarget 1.4.20.3+svn502-2ubuntu4 in yakkety arm64
  iscsitarget 1.4.20.3+svn502-2ubuntu4 in yakkety armhf
  iscsitarget 1.4.20.3+svn502-2ubuntu4 in yakkety i386
  iscsitarget 1.4.20.3+svn502-2ubuntu4 in yakkety powerpc
  iscsitarget 1.4.20.3+svn502-2ubuntu4 in yakkety ppc64el
  iscsitarget 1.4.20.3+svn502-2ubuntu4 in yakkety s390x
  iscsitarget-dkms 1.4.20.3+svn502-2ubuntu4 in yakkety amd64
  iscsitarget-dkms 1.4.20.3+svn502-2ubuntu4 in yakkety arm64
  iscsitarget-dkms 1.4.20.3+svn502-2ubuntu4 in yakkety armhf
  iscsitarget-dkms 1.4.20.3+svn502-2ubuntu4 in yakkety i386
  iscsitarget-dkms 1.4.20.3+svn502-2ubuntu4 in yakkety powerpc
  iscsitarget-dkms 1.4.20.3+svn502-2ubuntu4 in yakkety ppc64el
  iscsitarget-dkms 1.4.20.3+svn502-2ubuntu4 in yakkety s390x
Comment: dkms module without support for current kernels, no Debian maintenance; Debian bug #786611, LP: #1613758
Remove [y|N]? y
1 package successfully removed.

Changed in iscsitarget (Ubuntu Yakkety):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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MegaBrutal (qbu6to) wrote :

OK, men, but then what is the replacement for iscsitarget? What should I replace my current configuration with?

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Nish Aravamudan (nacc) wrote :

@qbu6to, afaict, iscstarget was primarily for managing the DKMS kernel module.

You can use iscsiadm (open-iscsi pacakge, iirc) to connect to iscsi disks and tgtadm (if using a tgt server) for configuring the targets on an iscsi server.

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Nish Aravamudan (nacc) wrote :

@qbu6to, and there is now upstream iscsi target support, as well, without needing an external module.

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Stefan Bader (smb) wrote :

iscsitarget was the userspace part to manager iscsi targets which used the iscsitarget-dkms kernel module. But it looks to be no longer actively maintained which caused more and more problems with recent kernels.

As Nish pointed out, there is now an implementation of the kernel side driver that comes with the kernel package (so no longer needing any DKMS package) and "tgt" is the package that contains the administrative tools to manage those. This would already work with the 16.04 kernel and installation. Unfortunately the config differs and probably needs to be manually migrated.

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