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authorWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2017-02-10 10:16:14 +0100
committerWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2017-02-10 10:29:09 +0100
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Update seeds tooling to Python 3
All the other tooling scripts require Python 3, it makes sense to do so here too. Also document the dependency on python3-dnspython.
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-### Seeds ###
+# Seeds
Utility to generate the seeds.txt list that is compiled into the client
(see [src/chainparamsseeds.h](/src/chainparamsseeds.h) and other utilities in [contrib/seeds](/contrib/seeds)).
@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@ Utility to generate the seeds.txt list that is compiled into the client
The seeds compiled into the release are created from sipa's DNS seed data, like this:
curl -s http://bitcoin.sipa.be/seeds.txt > seeds_main.txt
- python makeseeds.py < seeds_main.txt > nodes_main.txt
- python generate-seeds.py . > ../../src/chainparamsseeds.h
+ python3 makeseeds.py < seeds_main.txt > nodes_main.txt
+ python3 generate-seeds.py . > ../../src/chainparamsseeds.h
+## Dependencies
+
+Ubuntu:
+
+ sudo apt-get install python3-dnspython