Upstream Tor packages for Fedora 21 have disappeared

[daveewart]

(Originally raised this issue against qubes-app-linux-tor but I presume it's actually supposed to be here instead.)

When setting up a Tor VM, the recommendation is to install the packages qubes-tor-repo and qubes-tor in a template. However I note that as of a few days ago, the Fedora 21 packages have disappeared. Inside such a template with those packages already installed, 'yum update' returns:

http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/rpm/fc/21/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: 
[Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found
Trying other mirror.
http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/rpm/fc/21/SRPMS/repodata/repomd.xml: 
[Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found
Trying other mirror.

The directory http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/rpm/fc/21 no longer exists, only the 22 and 23 equivalents.

[andrewdavidwong]

This is presumably because Fedora 21 reaches EOL on 2015-12-01, right?

We can update our documentation, but obviously we have no control over what the Tor project provides.

[andrewdavidwong]

This is presumably because Fedora 21 reaches EOL on 2015-12-01, right?

We can update our documentation, but obviously we have no control over what the Tor project provides.

[mfc]

@daveewart don't forget you can use whonix-gateway, it is a more robust implementation of torvm. It is whonix/debian-based and does not face this issue. We probably need to highlight this more in the torvm documentation.

[mfc]

@daveewart don't forget you can use whonix-gateway, it is a more robust implementation of torvm. It is whonix/debian-based and does not face this issue. We probably need to highlight this more in the torvm documentation.

[marmarek]

Also we have Fedora 23 template available.

[marmarek]

Also we have Fedora 23 template available.