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authorPéter Szilágyi <peterke@gmail.com>2016-10-29 01:05:01 +0800
committerFelix Lange <fjl@twurst.com>2016-10-29 01:05:01 +0800
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Godeps, vendor: convert dependency management to trash (#3198)
This commit converts the dependency management from Godeps to the vendor folder, also switching the tool from godep to trash. Since the upstream tool lacks a few features proposed via a few PRs, until those PRs are merged in (if), use github.com/karalabe/trash. You can update dependencies via trash --update. All dependencies have been updated to their latest version. Parts of the build system are reworked to drop old notions of Godeps and invocation of the go vet command so that it doesn't run against the vendor folder, as that will just blow up during vetting. The conversion drops OpenCL (and hence GPU mining support) from ethash and our codebase. The short reasoning is that there's noone to maintain and having opencl libs in our deps messes up builds as go install ./... tries to build them, failing with unsatisfied link errors for the C OpenCL deps. golang.org/x/net/context is not vendored in. We expect it to be fetched by the user (i.e. using go get). To keep ci.go builds reproducible the package is "vendored" in build/_vendor.
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+# Vendored Dependencies
+
+Dependencies are almost all vendored in at the standard Go `/vendor` path. This allows
+people to build go-ethereum using the standard toolchain without any particular package
+manager. It also plays nicely with `go get`, not requiring external code to be relied on.
+
+The one single dependent package missing from `vendor` is `golang.org/x/net/context`. As
+this is a package exposed via public library APIs, it must not be vendored as dependent
+code woulnd't be able to instantiate.
+
+To allow reproducible builds of go-ethereum nonetheless that don't need network access
+during build time to fetch `golang.org/x/net/context`, a version was copied into our repo
+at the very specific `/build/_vendor` path, which is added automatically by all CI build
+scripts and the makefile too.
+
# Debian Packaging
Tagged releases and develop branch commits are available as installable Debian packages