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diff --git a/build/ci-notes.md b/build/ci-notes.md index 39375ff4c..3fc2690b2 100644 --- a/build/ci-notes.md +++ b/build/ci-notes.md @@ -1,3 +1,18 @@ +# 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 |