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authorkallewoof <kalle.alm@gmail.com>2018-03-06 15:24:47 -0500
committerKarl-Johan Alm <karljohan-alm@garage.co.jp>2018-03-06 17:14:29 -0500
commit08e0855b967fa3e28577503815f553f13915f722 (patch)
tree77816bb6a834a1293bee3a70df9ef14bbc8f66eb
parent20e3b9a485fd6b23785c5caa49d01ea49fdc8bcf (diff)
Give hint about gitian not able to download
Gitian fails to perform downloads right now on my set up. This can be circumvented by first checking out the tag being built and then doing the depends download step before running `gbuild`.
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@@ -93,7 +93,9 @@ Create the OS X SDK tarball, see the [OS X readme](README_osx.md) for details, a
### Optional: Seed the Gitian sources cache and offline git repositories
-By default, Gitian will fetch source files as needed. To cache them ahead of time:
+NOTE: Gitian is sometimes unable to download files. If you have errors, try the step below.
+
+By default, Gitian will fetch source files as needed. To cache them ahead of time, make sure you have checked out the tag you want to build in bitcoin, then:
pushd ./gitian-builder
make -C ../bitcoin/depends download SOURCES_PATH=`pwd`/cache/common