Re: Adding Debian, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, RHEL, CentOS kernels to WireGuard CI: Seeking URLs

["Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>]

On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 6:21 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 8:01 PM Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 5:50 AM Neal Gompa <ngompa13@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 3:21 AM Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi Neal,
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for these very helpful instructions. In trying to implement
> > > > this, one snag I encountered was that the .src.rpm file has inside of
> > > > it the linux-{version}.tar.xz file that I actually want. Is there
> > > > anywhere on the internet that hosts these .tar.xz files directly?
> > > >
> > >
> > > There *is*, but that starts getting into using the CentOS Git system
> > > more directly. Per your original email, you weren't interested in that
> > > path, so I didn't go there.
> >
> > Well, one trick is that most web git viewers (such as cgit) can
> > produce a tarball on the fly from a URL. Something like this exist
> > here?
>
> So, CentOS uses a Dist-Git[1] system, which means the part that is
> actually tracked in git is the packaging files, and there's an
> associated binary repo reference stored in the Git repo for fetching
> binary artifacts. Dist-Git is the common ancestor to virtually all
> current approaches to storing binaries efficiently alongside a Git
> repo (Git-Annex and Git LFS came much later).
>
> It seems it's possible to do this without having to use Git itself
> (which is better than with git-annex and git-lfs), but it's a bit
> cumbersome...
>
> The way that you'd fetch the tarball in this scenario would be to
> something like the following:
>
> 1. Get the tags via API, but with commits:
>
> $ curl --silent --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
> https://git.centos.org/api/0/rpms/kernel/git/tags?with_commits=true \
> | jq '.["tags"] '
>
> This gives you now a JSON dictionary with the tags as keys and the
> associated commit as values.
>
> 2. Get the corresponding commit and fetch the .kernel.metadata file
> containing the lookaside references:
>
> $ curl --silent
> https://git.centos.org/rpms/kernel/raw/${kernel_tag_commit}/f/.kernel.metadata \
> > kernel_sources
>
> 3. Fetch the source matching to your kernel source package:
>
> $ wget https://git.centos.org/sources/kernel/${rel}/${kernel_src_checksum} \
> --output-document=${kernel_src_filename}
>
> The $kernel_src_checksum and $kernel_src_filename would be populated
> from the entries in the kernel_sources files you downloaded earlier.
>
> Note: $rel is either "c7" or "c8" depending on which one you're trying to get.
>
>
> [1]: https://github.com/release-engineering/dist-git

Perfect, thanks. CentOS kernels are now on
https://www.wireguard.com/build-status/ , though el7 is having build
issues.