[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH v2] wireguard-tools: fix version indicator

[Petr Štetiar]

Paul Fertser <fercerpav at gmail.com> [2020-05-11 17:43:56]:

Hi,

> On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 04:25:42PM +0200, Petr Štetiar wrote:
> > > If we execute `wg --version` we get a diffrent version string that does
> > > not match with the version string in the openwrt makefile.
> > >
> > > Current version string:
> > > `wireguard-tools vreboot-13159-gac5caa2718 -https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-tools/`
> 
> This is clearly the git tag from OpenWrt tree itself.

Indeed.

> > ok, but I fail to see why this patch should be maintained by OpenWrt, this
> > looks like it should be fixed upstream. Thanks.
> 
> Many projects when cloned from a git tree use some variation of "git
> describe" to embed a meaningful version in the compiled binary. 

OpenWrt is using WireGuard release tarballs.

-- ynezz

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