Installation instructions for Debian

[Baptiste Jonglez]

On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 12:58:37AM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Hey Baptiste,
> 
> Spectacular, thanks a bunch. I think I had asked about this same thing
> a while back, but somehow I got confused in the ensuing mailing list
> thread and eventually I forgot about it. So I'm glad you've brought
> this back up. I updated the install page with verbatim what you sent.

Thanks!

Note that the previous installation instructions (basically, just "sudo
apt install wireguard-tools wireguard-dkms") were valid for Debian sid.

The new installation instructions are only valid for Debian jessie and
Debian stretch (admittedly, probably the largest fraction of Debian
users).  But I still think you should reflect this in the instructions.

Debian wheezy is not supported (with its old 3.2 kernel), although it
could be possible to use wireguard with the wheezy-backports kernel
(3.16).  I don't think it's worth mentioning it anyway, Wheezy is
old-stable and will soon be old-old-stable.

> Jason
> 
> On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 9:05 AM, Baptiste Jonglez
> <baptiste at bitsofnetworks.org> wrote:
> > Hi Jason,
> >
> > Could you update the installation instructions for Debian [1]?
> >
> > Based on the discussion from a few months ago, and given that Wireguard
> > now supports Jessie's 3.16 kernel, these instructions should be added:
> >
> >     For Debian jessie or stretch:
> >     # echo "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ unstable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/unstable-wireguard.list
> >     # cat <<EOF > /etc/apt/preferences.d/limit-unstable
> >     Package: *
> >     Pin: release a=unstable
> >     Pin-Priority: 200
> >     EOF
> >     # apt update
> >     # apt install wireguard-dkms wireguard-tools
> >
> > I have verified that the resulting setup is functional (with 0.0.20170421-2 on jessie).
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Baptiste
> >
> > [1] https://www.wireguard.io/install/
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