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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 + |