Two install-time failures on PVE 8.4.x nodes:
1. 'patch' utility not in Depends — causes silent patch failure on fresh
nodes; all three PVE file patches silently skip, plugin appears to
install but storage operations fail. Added 'patch' to control.j2.
2. ZFSPlugin.pm routing not applied on PVE 8.4.x — tabs→spaces reformat
and get_base($scfg) signature change in 8.4 broke hunks #3 and #4
(the freenas elsif routing branches). Nodes with a prior partial
install are doubly affected: grep idempotency check passes on partial
freenas strings, so the routing is never applied, causing:
"freenas: unknown iscsi provider" on clone/migrate operations.
New ZFSPlugin-8.4.14_1.pm.patch generated against stock PVE 8.4.19,
bundled as patches/ZFSPlugin/8.4.patch alongside existing 8.patch.
Verified clean on pve01-hq (8.4.19) and pve02-hq (8.4.14).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Users on unsupported PVE versions now get clear guidance at every
layer — README, install time, and GitHub release notes — rather than
silently failing or getting confusing patch errors.
- README: replace bare compatibility table with a full matrix and
prominent callout blocks for PVE 7 (last v2.x), PVE 8 (EOL
2026-08-31), PVE 9+ (use v3.0), and PVE ≤6 (unsupported)
- postinst: add check_pve_version() that exits on PVE < 7, warns
loudly on PVE 7 (stay on v2.x, do not upgrade to v3.0), notes
the PVE 8 EOL date, and warns on PVE 9+ (v2.x not supported)
- build.yml release template: add a version compatibility table so
every GitHub release prominently states who should and should not
install it
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
PVE 8.4 reformatted pvemanagerlib.js (tabs→spaces, structural changes),
making the existing 8.0.5-era patch fail on all 8.4.x nodes.
- Add pvemanagerlib-8.4.14_1.js.patch covering PVE 8.4.x (all hunks
verified on 8.4.14 and 8.4.19)
- Update postinst to detect pve-manager major.minor (e.g. "8.4") and
try a minor-version-specific patch before falling back to the major
patch — 8.3.x nodes keep using 8.patch, 8.4.x nodes use 8.4.patch
- Update build.yml to bundle 8.4.patch alongside the existing 8.patch
Tested live on pve01-hq (8.4.19) and pve03-hq (8.3.2) — correct patch
selected in each case, pvemanagerlib patched successfully on 8.4.19.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
dpkg-deb --build reads a binary control file and rejects the two-stanza
source+binary format. Rewrote control.j2 as a single binary-only stanza.
Removed the source stanza (Source, Standards-Version, Build-Depends fields)
which are only meaningful in source packages built with dpkg-buildpackage.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
REST_CLIENT_PATH was defined but never referenced. REST/Client.pm is owned
by librest-client-perl and is intentionally not removed by our postrm
(documented in the comment above remove_plugin_files). Remove the dead variable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Kevin Adams