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diff --git a/build/ci-notes.md b/build/ci-notes.md index 92e7c54d0..7574bfffa 100644 --- a/build/ci-notes.md +++ b/build/ci-notes.md @@ -1,18 +1,3 @@ -# 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 @@ -20,9 +5,9 @@ for Ubuntu. Packages are built for the all Ubuntu versions which are supported b Canonical: - Trusty Tahr (14.04 LTS) -- Wily Werewolf (15.10) - Xenial Xerus (16.04 LTS) - Yakkety Yak (16.10) +- Zesty Zapus (17.04) Packages of develop branch commits have suffix -unstable and cannot be installed alongside the stable version. Switching between release streams requires user intervention. @@ -36,18 +21,18 @@ variable which Travis CI makes available to certain builds. We want to build go-ethereum with the most recent version of Go, irrespective of the Go version that is available in the main Ubuntu repository. In order to make this possible, our PPA depends on the ~gophers/ubuntu/archive PPA. Our source package build-depends on -golang-1.7, which is co-installable alongside the regular golang package. PPA dependencies +golang-1.8, which is co-installable alongside the regular golang package. PPA dependencies can be edited at https://launchpad.net/%7Eethereum/+archive/ubuntu/ethereum/+edit-dependencies ## Building Packages Locally (for testing) You need to run Ubuntu to do test packaging. -Add the gophers PPA and install Go 1.7 and Debian packaging tools: +Add the gophers PPA and install Go 1.8 and Debian packaging tools: $ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:gophers/ubuntu/archive $ sudo apt-get update - $ sudo apt-get install build-essential golang-1.7 devscripts debhelper + $ sudo apt-get install build-essential golang-1.8 devscripts debhelper Create the source packages: @@ -55,10 +40,10 @@ Create the source packages: Then go into the source package directory for your running distribution and build the package: - $ cd dist/ethereum-unstable-1.5.0+xenial + $ cd dist/ethereum-unstable-1.6.0+xenial $ dpkg-buildpackage Built packages are placed in the dist/ directory. $ cd .. - $ dpkg-deb -c geth-unstable_1.5.0+xenial_amd64.deb + $ dpkg-deb -c geth-unstable_1.6.0+xenial_amd64.deb |