With the beta sticky at https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/beta-program-announcements/1631, might want to also add official instructions for updating the letsencrypt client while perserving the /etc/letsencrypt/accounts 
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Edited: Got confirmation letsencrypt-auto doesn’t update itself, just dependencies.
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with latest letsencrypt-auto changes Using the webroot domain verification method how does one update the client for beta invitees ?
is it just wiping the virtualenv out and reinstall ?
i.e. my virtualenv was at /root/tools/letsencrypt so for me on CentOS 6.7 with python2.7 ?
cd /root/tools
rm -rf /root/tools/letsencrypt
git clone https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt
cd letsencrypt
sed -i "s|--python python2|--python python2.7|" letsencrypt-auto
./letsencrypt-auto --agree-dev-preview --server https://acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org/directoryJust rerunning it should update the client.
but @jcjones above confirmed that won’t auto update itself ?
If you take a look at the source code, you’ll see that the letsencrypt-auto script updates the dependencies and letsencrypt itself every time it’s run. (I actually think it’s a bit excessive. Wouldn’t it be enough to check once every hour or so?)
The letsencrypt-auto script itself isn’t updated but I don’t think that it’ll change much unless letsencrypt’s dependencies change.
Ups, then it’s probably just a git pull?.
Client dev to the rescue! Okay. letsencrypt-auto is a wrapper script around the letsencrypt program. Every time the script is run, it does the following:
- If your Python virtual environment is not present (stored at
~/.local/share/letsencrypton most systems), it updates/installs necessary OS dependencies (dialog,python, etc.) and sets up the virtual environment. - Updates the Python dependencies and
letsencryptitself. This happens on every run.
The letsencrypt-auto script itself is never updated. If you’d like to get a fresh version of this script, simply do a git pull. This should rarely be necessary, but if we make changes such as adding Python 2.6 support to letsencrypt-auto, you would need to do a git pull to get the changes.
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thanks @bmw so to cover our bases for updates a simple run within git cloned directory for
cd letsencrypt
git pull
./letsencrypt-auto --agree-dev-preview --server https://acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org/directory
should do it ?
might be one for official manual and beta invitee sticky thread
Yep that’d do it! Our OS dependencies will never be updated, but that’s not likely to ever be a problem. Even if it is, keeping your system up to date would solve it.
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I put it in the beta sticky! Thanks!
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