Hi distro kernel maintainers, I currently have build.wireguard.com churning away at every new kernel release between 3.10 and 5.5 for each and every wireguard-linux-compat commit, making sure that we don't break anything. It's a pretty CPU intensive, but it means we don't break mainline kernels ever when releasing. Scroll down to the bottom to see what I mean.
This is not the case, however, with distro kernels, which differ notoriously from mainline in surprising ways. There's been some breakage, and unless we do something about it, I imagine there will continue to be much breakage. Because so many users use Linux via your kernels, it seems imperative that we support these well. And with distros like Ubuntu now supporting WireGuard directly through wireguard-linux-compat, it seems ever more important that we minimize breakage so as to not create release delays downstream of us. At the moment, wireguard-linux-compat supports: - Debian oldoldstable (8), oldstable (9), stable (10), testing (11), sid - Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 19.04, 19.10, 20.04 - OpenSUSE 42, 15, 15.2 (leap) - RHEL 7.8, 8.2 - CentOS 8.1 The logic here is that we support the latest single kernel for each major supported release of these distros. For example, on Debian stable, we support 4.19.0-9 but not 4.19.0-8 anymore. I'd like to put these on build.wireguard.com to mitigate breakage. In order to make this happen, I'll need two things: - A URL I can scape that will give me the latest kernel versions for relevant distros. - A URL I can construct using a selected version to download a boring kernel source tarball. I would prefer to not involve git, if possible, and for these URLs to point to the sources for actual kernels that are shipping as the standard latest-kernel for each of the above releases. If you can provide those pieces of information for my CI scripts, it seems likely that we can drastically reduce breakage for your distribution frankenkernels. If you cannot provide that, but other distros can, I will probably naturally prioritize support for those other distros that make maintenance easier, simply as a matter of habit rather than something intentional. Let me know if this is something that interests you. I'm happy to get creative on what sorts of pages we scrape for this info. Thanks, Jason
