diff --git a/contrib/gitian-descriptors/README b/contrib/gitian-descriptors/README index 8a304eb34..8f272b009 100644 --- a/contrib/gitian-descriptors/README +++ b/contrib/gitian-descriptors/README @@ -53,3 +53,34 @@ Once you've got the right hardware and software: # Build Win32 release: ./bin/gbuild --commit bitcoin=HEAD ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-win32.yml + +--------------------- + +gitian-builder now also supports building using LXC. See + https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/lxc.html +... for how to get LXC up and running under Ubuntu. + +If your main machine is a 64-bit Mac or PC with a few gigabytes of memory +and at least 10 gigabytes of free disk space, you can gitian-build using +LXC running inside a virtual machine. + +Here's a description of Gavin's setup on OSX 10.6: + +1. Download and install VirtualBox from https://www.virtualbox.org/ + +2. Download the 64-bit Ubuntu Desktop 12.04 LTS .iso CD image from + http://www.ubuntu.com/ + +3. Run VirtualBox and create a new virtual machine, using the + Ubuntu .iso (see the VirtualBox documentation for details). + Create it with at least 2 gigabytes of memory and a disk + that is at least 20 gigabytes big. + +4. Inside the running Ubuntu desktop, install: + sudo apt-get install debootstrap lxc ruby apache2 git apt-cacher-ng python-vm-builder + +5. Still inside Ubuntu, tell gitian-builder to use LXC, then follow the "Once you've got the right + hardware and software" instructions above: + export USE_LXC=1 + git clone git://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.git + ... etc diff --git a/doc/release-process.txt b/doc/release-process.txt index 59488a7bf..b31b0ab54 100644 --- a/doc/release-process.txt +++ b/doc/release-process.txt @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ export VERSION=0.5.1 cd ./gitian-builder - * Fetch and build inputs: + * Fetch and build inputs: (first time, or when dependency versions change) mkdir -p inputs; cd inputs/ wget 'http://miniupnp.free.fr/files/download.php?file=miniupnpc-1.6.tar.gz' -O miniupnpc-1.6.tar.gz wget 'http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.1b.tar.gz' @@ -29,15 +29,15 @@ wget 'http://zlib.net/zlib-1.2.6.tar.gz' wget 'ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/libpng/png/src/libpng-1.5.9.tar.gz' wget 'http://fukuchi.org/works/qrencode/qrencode-3.2.0.tar.bz2' - wget 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost/1.47.0/boost_1_47_0.tar.bz2' + wget 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost/1.50.0/boost_1_50_0.tar.bz2' wget 'http://download.qt.nokia.com/qt/source/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.7.4.tar.gz' cd .. ./bin/gbuild ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/boost-win32.yml - cp build/out/boost-win32-1.47.0-gitian.zip inputs/ + mv build/out/boost-win32-1.50.0-gitian2.zip inputs/ ./bin/gbuild ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/qt-win32.yml - cp build/out/qt-win32-4.7.4-gitian.zip inputs/ + mv build/out/qt-win32-4.7.4-gitian.zip inputs/ ./bin/gbuild ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/deps-win32.yml - cp build/out/bitcoin-deps-0.0.3.zip inputs/ + mv build/out/bitcoin-deps-0.0.3.zip inputs/ * Build bitcoind and bitcoin-qt on Linux32, Linux64, and Win32: ./bin/gbuild --commit bitcoin=v${VERSION} ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian.yml