pkg.cloudflare.com changes

[sudarshan-reddy]

What is changing

pkg.cloudflare.com is now being upgraded to include packages belonging to newer Debian, Ubuntu and RHEL releases such as Bullseye, Bookworm, Jammy, 8.0 etc. We are also upgrading our backend services to a new and improved hosting system which utilizes Cloudflare's R2 solution.

What does this mean for me?

There will be minor changes to your apt sources.list. As an example, a new download for buster may look like this:

# Add cloudflare gpg key
sudo mkdir -p --mode=0755 /usr/share/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://pkg.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-main.gpg | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/cloudflare-main.gpg >/dev/null

# Add this repo to your apt repositories
echo 'deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/cloudflare-main.gpg] https://pkg.cloudflare.com/cloudflared buster main' >  /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cloudflared.list

# install cloudflared
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install cloudflared

Users of releases > buster, bionic and 6.0 will now be able to download cloudflared by adding this apt/rpm repository.

What stays the same

We will continue to use the same package signing keys as before. Older releases will continue to have cloudflared packages that are downloadable as long as Debian and RHEL support them.

What will change

Newer .deb and yum based releases should also let you download cloudflared.
Users can also do this from ARM based systems like raspberry pi, etc. (NOTE: armel is not yet supported). \

1. The repo url now has cloudflared appended to it: pkg.cloudflare.com changes #719 (comment)

2. The old rpm locations are now under pkg.cloudflare.com/cloudflared/rpm . Here's a sample instruction for yum installation for centos 8: https://pkg.cloudflare.com/#centos-8

What if I encounter problems

Report them here in this thread.

[dpuleri]

I was having an issue updating cloudflared using apt on Ubuntu Focal.

Reading package lists... Done                            
E: The repository 'https://pkg.cloudflare.com focal Release' no longer has a Release file.

To fix it, I had to edit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cloudflare-main.list and change the file to read as follows:

deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/cloudflare-main.gpg] https://pkg.cloudflare.com/cloudflared focal main

Where previously the url referenced was just https://pkg.cloudflare.com and didn't have the /cloudflared part.

[sudarshan-reddy]

Thank you for posting this. This was largely intentional and I should have mentioned it in the over-all issue. I've linked your excellent explanation now instead.

[flavorgold1]

I switched to this:

deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/cloudflare-main.gpg] https://pkg.cloudflare.com/cloudflared focal main

Is anyone receiving this notice when they run apt update?

N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-i386/Packages' as repository 'https://pkg.cloudflare.com/cloudflared focal InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'i386'

I'm on an x64 machine (Ubuntu Focal).
So, does this matter?

[jimsmith]

rpm user OS is Amazon Linux 2 this is breaking updating the software but also for spinning up new infrastructure for our team of dev/engineers and myself. :( this came a bit of a shock to me and another engineer, a breaking change.

wget http://pkg.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-release-latest.el7.rpm
--2022-08-10 14:28:20--  http://pkg.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-release-latest.el7.rpm
Resolving pkg.cloudflare.com (pkg.cloudflare.com)... 104.18.1.118, 104.18.0.118, 2606:4700::6812:176, ...
Connecting to pkg.cloudflare.com (pkg.cloudflare.com)|104.18.1.118|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2022-08-10 14:28:20 ERROR 404: Not Found.

yum info cloudflared
Loaded plugins: extras_suggestions, langpacks, priorities, update-motd
Installed Packages
Name        : cloudflared
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 2022.6.3
Release     : 1
Size        : 32 M
Repo        : installed
From repo   : cloudflare
Summary     : Cloudflare Tunnel daemon
URL         : https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared
License     : Apache License Version 2.0
Description : Cloudflare Tunnel daemon

Available Packages
Name        : cloudflared
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 2022.7.1
Release     : 1
Size        : 14 M
Repo        : cloudflare/x86_64
Summary     : Cloudflare Tunnel daemon
URL         : https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared
License     : Apache License Version 2.0
Description : Cloudflare Tunnel daemon

yum info cloudflared
Loaded plugins: extras_suggestions, langpacks, priorities, update-motd
Installed Packages
Name        : cloudflared
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 2022.6.3
Release     : 1
Size        : 32 M
Repo        : installed
From repo   : cloudflare
Summary     : Cloudflare Tunnel daemon
URL         : https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared
License     : Apache License Version 2.0
Description : Cloudflare Tunnel daemon

Available Packages
Name        : cloudflared
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 2022.7.1
Release     : 1
Size        : 14 M
Repo        : cloudflare/x86_64
Summary     : Cloudflare Tunnel daemon
URL         : https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared
License     : Apache License Version 2.0
Description : Cloudflare Tunnel daemon

[root@ip-172-31-29-124 ~]# yum update cloudflared
Loaded plugins: extras_suggestions, langpacks, priorities, update-motd
amzn2-core                                                                                                                                                            | 3.7 kB  00:00:00
http://pkg.cloudflare.com/dists/7/main/binary-x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found
Trying other mirror.
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package cloudflared.x86_64 0:2022.6.3-1 will be updated
---> Package cloudflared.x86_64 0:2022.7.1-1 will be an update
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================================================================================================================================
 Package                                        Arch                                      Version                                        Repository                                     Size
=============================================================================================================================================================================================
Updating:
 cloudflared                                    x86_64                                    2022.7.1-1                                     cloudflare                                     14 M

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================================================================================================================================
Upgrade  1 Package

Total download size: 14 M
Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
Downloading packages:
Delta RPMs disabled because /usr/bin/applydeltarpm not installed.
http://pkg.cloudflare.com//pool/el7/main/c/cloudflared-2022.7.1-1.src.rpm/cloudflared-2022.7.1-1.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found
Trying other mirror.


Error downloading packages:
  cloudflared-2022.7.1-1.x86_64: failed to retrieve /pool/el7/main/c/cloudflared-2022.7.1-1.src.rpm/cloudflared-2022.7.1-1.x86_64.rpm from cloudflare
error was [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found

[sudarshan-reddy]

Apologies for this.

This was a change we absolutely needed to do in order to provide modern pkgs and will most likely never break in the future.

http://pkg.cloudflare.com/cloudflared/rpm/x86_64/cloudflared-linux-x86_64.rpm is the new location.

Although, if you want a stable location to download just the rpm, the recommended location is our github releases here: https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared/releases that's historically always had the latest rpms.

[jimsmith]

Apologies for this.

This was a change we absolutely needed to do in order to provide modern pkgs and will most likely never break in the future.

http://pkg.cloudflare.com/cloudflared/rpm/x86_64/cloudflared-linux-x86_64.rpm is the new location.

Although, if you want a stable location to download just the rpm, the recommended location is our github releases here: https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared/releases that's historically always had the latest rpms.

Hello firstly thanks for this.

Will this seamlessly upgrade on existing machines that have the software installed or will it treat it as a 'new' installation and create new configuration files ?

Also does this package take care of upgrades as in an rpm repository or is the way going forward via github releases for the developer/engineer to work this logic out for themselves ?

The way for installing rpm is followed from the documentation I was pointed towards erm well by cloudflare which you'll see shows the exact url to download https://pkg.cloudflareclient.com/cloudflare-release-el<VERSION>.rpm which I found initially giving 404 error's periodically hence changing it to http://pkg.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-release-latest.el7.rpm and that worked perfectly and has been for quite a long time now.

It would help not having different sets of instructions, especially for repeatability for devops engineers, at the least a graceful period of a 301 redirect to give the community time to plan for this instead of a hard 404.

[sudarshan-reddy]

Will this seamlessly upgrade on existing machines that have the software installed or will it treat it as a 'new' installation and create new configuration files ?

This will be seamless.

The only part that will change is how you obtain these packages (i.e. If you use yum/apt to install , the repository location will change will be minor: i.e an rpm prefix for yum and a cloudflared prefix for apt).

The way for installing rpm is followed from the documentation I was pointed towards erm well by cloudflare which you'll see shows the exact url to download https://pkg.cloudflareclient.com/cloudflare-release-el.rpm which I found initially giving 404 error's periodically hence changing it to http://pkg.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-release-latest.el7.rpm and that worked perfectly and has been for quite a long time now.

The documentation you've linked does not have instructions to download the rpm from pkg.cloudflare.com. I'll try and add it to our developer documents here: https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections/connect-apps/install-and-setup/installation/

[jimsmith]

Hi @sudarshan-reddy is there a .gpg for the .rpm version please ?

https://pkg.cloudflare.com/pubkey.gpg worked previously, but now gives a 404.

Although https://pkg.cloudflareclient.com/pubkey.gpg is still there, should that used ?

I tried the one in here and this comes back msg: 'Not a public key: https://pkg.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-main.gpg' but it is not a PGP Public Key