Re: wireguard kmod package

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On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 6:04 PM Joe Doss <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On June 25, 2020 4:50:12 PM Justin Forbes <jmforbes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 6:33 AM Leigh Scott <leigh123linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>>> From what I understood of the thread it's purely removing the akmod
>>>> and the new kernels have the module so how does it break their VPNs?
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>>> If you remove akmod-wireguard it will also remove the wireguard package which will cause the VPN to stop functioning.
>>> Wireguard/wireguard-tools is required for a working VPN.
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>> That would be a rather serious flaw in the wireguard tools package to
>> have a dep on akmod-wireguard when it has been upstream and included
>> in the Fedora kernel-modules package for a few months at this point.
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> wirerguard-tools has no dep on akmod-wireguard? Unless I'm misunderstanding the point you are trying to make here?

The Fedora wireguard-tools package would probably have a conditional
dep for the wireguard ko if it was going to have any at all:

Requires: (kmod(wireguard.ko) if kernel)

That makes it nice in containers and still ensures that if there is a
kernel installed, the kmod would be present.


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