Merge pull request #5512

dd14a0e docs: update gitian building docs (Cory Fields)
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@ -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
```
@ -311,27 +310,10 @@ 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.
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.
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.
**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.
At any time you can check the package installation and build progress with
```bash
tail -f var/install.log
tail -f var/build.log
```
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.
Building Bitcoin
----------------
@ -339,6 +321,15 @@ 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.
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
Output from `gbuild` will look something like
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/debian/gitian-builder/inputs/bitcoin/.git/
@ -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
-----------------------------------