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authorCory Fields <cory-nospam-@coryfields.com>2014-12-19 14:39:10 -0500
committerCory Fields <cory-nospam-@coryfields.com>2014-12-19 14:44:23 -0500
commitdd14a0e799b6552ae85aaab2b0b48f788c578aea (patch)
tree5a4481f2225e4795f154fc91516422e70627484b /doc
parent111a7d45f17fccdbff05a6afec222fe61684b860 (diff)
docs: update gitian building docs
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diff --git a/doc/gitian-building.md b/doc/gitian-building.md
index b356a5d88d..defddedc6e 100644
--- a/doc/gitian-building.md
+++ b/doc/gitian-building.md
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ Setting up gitian images
-------------------------
Gitian needs virtual images of the operating system to build in.
-Currently this is Ubuntu Precise for both x86 architectures.
+Currently this is Ubuntu Precise for x86_64.
These images will be copied and used every time that a build is started to
make sure that the build is deterministic.
Creating the images will take a while, but only has to be done once.
@@ -300,7 +300,6 @@ Execute the following as user `debian`:
```bash
cd gitian-builder
-bin/make-base-vm --lxc --arch i386 --suite precise
bin/make-base-vm --lxc --arch amd64 --suite precise
```
@@ -311,33 +310,25 @@ There will be a lot of warnings printed during build of the images. These can be
Getting and building the inputs
--------------------------------
-In [doc/release-process.md](release-process.md) in the bitcoin repository under 'Fetch and build inputs'.
-you will find a list of `wget` commands that can be executed to get the dependencies.
+Follow the instructions in [doc/release-process.md](release-process.md) in the bitcoin repository
+under 'Fetch and build inputs' to install sources which require manual intervention. Also follow
+the next step: 'Seed the Gitian sources cache', which will fetch all necessary source files allowing
+for gitian to work offline.
-I needed to add `--no-check-certificate` to the OpenSSL wget line to make it work.
-Likely this is because the ca-certificates in Debian 7.4 is fairly old. This does not create a
-security issue as the gitian descriptors check the integrity of the input archives and refuse to work
-if any one is corrupted.
+Building Bitcoin
+----------------
-After downloading the archives, execute the `gbuild` commands to build the dependencies.
-This can take a long time, but only has to be done when the dependencies change, for example
-to upgrade the used version.
+To build Bitcoin (for Linux, OSX and Windows) just follow the steps under 'perform
+gitian builds' in [doc/release-process.md](release-process.md) in the bitcoin repository.
-**Note**: Do not forget to copy the result from `build/out` to `inputs` after every gbuild command! This will save
-you a lot of time.
+This may take a long time as it also builds the dependencies needed for each descriptor.
+These dependencies will be cached after a successful build to avoid rebuilding them when possible.
At any time you can check the package installation and build progress with
```bash
tail -f var/install.log
tail -f var/build.log
-```
-
-Building Bitcoin
-----------------
-
-To build Bitcoin (for Linux, OSX and Windows) just follow the steps under 'perform
-gitian builds' in [doc/release-process.md](release-process.md) in the bitcoin repository.
Output from `gbuild` will look something like
@@ -348,7 +339,7 @@ Output from `gbuild` will look something like
Resolving deltas: 100% (25724/25724), done.
From https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin
... (new tags, new branch etc)
- --- Building for precise i386 ---
+ --- Building for precise x86_64 ---
Stopping target if it is up
Making a new image copy
stdin: is not a tty
@@ -363,9 +354,6 @@ Output from `gbuild` will look something like
lxc-start: Connection refused - inotify event with no name (mask 32768)
Running build script (log in var/build.log)
-As when building the dependencies, the progress of package installation and building
-can be inspected in `var/install.log` and `var/build.log`.
-
Building an alternative repository
-----------------------------------