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diff --git a/build/ci-notes.md b/build/ci-notes.md index f5b0e869d..ba27cdb1d 100644 --- a/build/ci-notes.md +++ b/build/ci-notes.md @@ -7,11 +7,18 @@ Canonical. Packages of develop branch commits have suffix -unstable and cannot be installed alongside the stable version. Switching between release streams requires user intervention. +## Launchpad + The packages are built and served by launchpad.net. We generate a Debian source package for each distribution and upload it. Their builder picks up the source package, builds it and installs the new version into the PPA repository. Launchpad requires a valid signature -by a team member for source package uploads. The signing key is stored in an environment -variable which Travis CI makes available to certain builds. +by a team member for source package uploads. + +The signing key is stored in an environment variable which Travis CI makes available to +certain builds. Since Travis CI doesn't support FTP, SFTP is used to transfer the +packages. To set this up yourself, you need to create a Launchpad user and add a GPG key +and SSH key to it. Then encode both keys as base64 and configure 'secret' environment +variables `PPA_SIGNING_KEY` and `PPA_SSH_KEY` on Travis. 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, @@ -27,7 +34,7 @@ Add the gophers PPA and install Go 1.10 and Debian packaging tools: $ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:gophers/ubuntu/archive $ sudo apt-get update - $ sudo apt-get install build-essential golang-1.10 devscripts debhelper + $ sudo apt-get install build-essential golang-1.10 devscripts debhelper python-bzrlib python-paramiko Create the source packages: |