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| author | Felix Lange <fjl@twurst.com> | 2016-05-25 20:07:57 +0800 |
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| committer | Felix Lange <fjl@twurst.com> | 2016-06-22 19:42:39 +0800 |
| commit | 6c33ba14a4db99409657e6a68a7c629e09ceee3f (patch) | |
| tree | 7b73dadb69a0e626e6c2c922da2ac17bba8e94d4 /build/ci-notes.md | |
| parent | a38be3eb488a349693a9c9905ab015278281f8db (diff) | |
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build: add ci.go, use it everywhere
The new build script, ci.go, replaces some of the older shell scripts.
ci.go can compile go-ethereum, run the tests, create release archives
and debian source packages.
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diff --git a/build/ci-notes.md b/build/ci-notes.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..989cba6dd --- /dev/null +++ b/build/ci-notes.md @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +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 +Canonical: + +- Trusty Tahr (14.04 LTS) +- Wily Werewolf (15.10) +- Xenial Xerus (16.04 LTS) + +Packages of develop branch commits have suffix -unstable and cannot be installed alongside +the stable version. Switching between release streams requires user intervention. + +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. + +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 +can be edited at https://launchpad.net/%7Elp-fjl/+archive/ubuntu/geth-ci-testing/+edit-dependencies + |