Procedure for Updating Snapshot

Procedure for Updating Snapshot

[Eddie]

What is the correct procedure for updating WG with a new snapshot.

I'm currently running CentOS 7.4 and previously had installed the 
20180420 snapshot.  Today, I tried to update with the new 20180513 one, 
and it appears to be failing.  The command I used was:  yum update 
--disablerepo=* --enablerepo=jdoss-wireguard wireguard*

This resulted in the following messages:

Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction
   Updating   : 
1:wireguard-dkms-0.0.20180513-1.el7.centos.noarch            1/4
warning: %post(wireguard-dkms-1:0.0.20180513-1.el7.centos.noarch) 
scriptlet failed, exit status 10
Non-fatal POSTIN scriptlet failure in rpm package 
1:wireguard-dkms-0.0.20180513-1.el7.centos.noarch
   Updating   : 
1:wireguard-tools-0.0.20180513-1.el7.centos.x86_64           2/4
   Cleanup    : 
1:wireguard-tools-0.0.20180420-1.el7.centos.x86_64           3/4
   Cleanup    : 
1:wireguard-dkms-0.0.20180420-1.el7.centos.noarch            4/4
   Verifying  : 
1:wireguard-dkms-0.0.20180513-1.el7.centos.noarch            1/4
   Verifying  : 
1:wireguard-tools-0.0.20180513-1.el7.centos.x86_64           2/4
   Verifying  : 
1:wireguard-tools-0.0.20180420-1.el7.centos.x86_64           3/4
   Verifying  : 
1:wireguard-dkms-0.0.20180420-1.el7.centos.noarch            4/4

Updated:
   wireguard-dkms.noarch 1:0.0.20180513-1.el7.centos
   wireguard-tools.x86_64 1:0.0.20180513-1.el7.centos

Complete!


However, the extra/wireguard.ko module was not built.

I then realised that I had not stopped the running instance, and so ran:

systemctl stop wg-quick@wg0
yum reinstall --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=jdoss-wireguard wireguard*

This resulted in exactly the same errors and again the 
extra/wireguard.ko module was not built.

What am I doing wrong here.

Cheers.

Re: Procedure for Updating Snapshot

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

We only support the most recent RHEL, which means 7.5, not 7.4. The
last snapshot supporting 7.4 is 0.0.20180420. To use future snapshots,
including 0.0.20180513, update to at least 7.5.

Re: Procedure for Updating Snapshot

[Eddie]

Isn't that a little premature to drop support for CentOS 7.4.  7.5 was 
only officially released 3 days ago.

Cheers.


On 5/13/2018 2:29 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> We only support the most recent RHEL, which means 7.5, not 7.4. The
> last snapshot supporting 7.4 is 0.0.20180420. To use future snapshots,
> including 0.0.20180513, update to at least 7.5.
>
>

Re: Procedure for Updating Snapshot

[Joe Doss]

Hi Eddie,

On 05/14/2018 12:05 AM, Eddie wrote:
> Isn't that a little premature to drop support for CentOS 7.4.  7.5 was 
> only officially released 3 days ago.

Snapshot 0.0.20180420 still supports CentOS 7.4, so support hasn't been 
dropped. WireGuard is in active development and it would cause more pain 
than it is worth to have to figure out how to get the current snapshot 
working in both CentOS 7.4 and 7.5. A line has to be drawn somewhere to 
keep development efforts moving forward.

Even if WireGuard was in the mainstream kernel, if you didn't update to 
7.5 you would be running the older WireGuard code anyways. In my 
experience upgrading between point releases in CentOS is pretty safe, so 
I urge you do so if you feel you need the most recent WireGuard snapshot 
working.

Joe



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Joe Doss
joe@solidadmin.com