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-Debian Packaging
-----------------
+# Debian Packaging
Tagged releases and develop branch commits are available as installable Debian packages
for Ubuntu. Packages are built for the all Ubuntu versions which are supported by
@@ -8,6 +7,7 @@ Canonical:
- Trusty Tahr (14.04 LTS)
- Wily Werewolf (15.10)
- Xenial Xerus (16.04 LTS)
+- Yakkety Yak (16.10)
Packages of develop branch commits have suffix -unstable and cannot be installed alongside
the stable version. Switching between release streams requires user intervention.
@@ -21,6 +21,29 @@ 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-1.6, which is co-installable alongside the regular golang package. PPA dependencies
+golang-1.7, which is co-installable alongside the regular golang package. PPA dependencies
can be edited at https://launchpad.net/%7Elp-fjl/+archive/ubuntu/geth-ci-testing/+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:
+
+ $ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:gophers/ubuntu/archive
+ $ sudo apt-get update
+ $ sudo apt-get install build-essential golang-1.7 devscripts debhelper
+
+Create the source packages:
+
+ $ go run build/ci.go debsrc -workdir dist
+
+Then go into the source package directory for your running distribution and build the package:
+
+ $ cd dist/ethereum-unstable-1.5.0+xenial
+ $ dpkg-buildpackage
+
+Built packages are placed in the dist/ directory.
+
+ $ cd ..
+ $ dpkg-deb -c geth-unstable_1.5.0+xenial_amd64.deb