Re: [bitcoin-dev] CI Build for Bitcoin - Some Basic Questions about Gitian and other stuff

[Roy Osherove <roy@osherove.com>]

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So who physically manually uploads the gitian build to bitcoin.org?

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Mark Friedenbach <mark@friedenbach.org>
wrote:

> Well the gitian builds are made available on bitcoin.org. If you mean a
> build server where gitian builds are automatically done and made available,
> well that rather defeats the point of gitian.
>
> The quorum signatures are accumulated here:
> https://github.com/bitcoin/gitian.sigs (it's a manual process).
>
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Roy Osherove <roy@osherove.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Mark.
>> Is there a public server where the gitian builds can be viewed?
>> Is there a public server that shows the quorum verifications or that
>> shows how to join in on the verification if such as thing is helpful?
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Mark Friedenbach <mark@friedenbach.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The builds made by Travis are for the purpose of making sure that the
>>> source code compiles and tests run successfully on all supported platforms.
>>> The binaries are not used anywhere else because Travis is not a trusted
>>> platform.
>>>
>>> The binaries on bitcoin.org are built using the gitian process and
>>> signed by a quorum of developers.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Roy Osherove via bitcoin-dev <
>>> bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Folks.
>>>> I'm trying my hand at creating a reproducible build of my own for
>>>> bitcoin and bitcoin-XT, using TeamCity.
>>>> I believe it is the best way to learn something: To try to build it
>>>> yourself.
>>>> Here is what I think I know so far, and I would love corrections, plus
>>>> questions:
>>>>
>>>>    1. Bitcoin is built continuously on travis-CI at
>>>>    https://travis-ci.org/bitcoin/bitcoin/
>>>>    2.  there are many flavors that are built, but I'm not sure if all
>>>>    of them are actually used/necessary. are they all needed, or just to "just
>>>>    in case"?
>>>>    3.  There is a gitian build file for bitcoin, but is anyone
>>>>    actually using it? are the bin files on bitcoin.org taken from
>>>>    that? or the travis ci builds? or some other place?
>>>>    4. Are there any things that people would love to have in the build
>>>>    that do not exist there today? perhaps I can help with that?
>>>>
>>>> Here is what I have now: http://btcdev.osherove.com:8111/
>>>> It does not do the matrix build yet, but it's coming. I'm just
>>>> wondering if all the platforms need to be supported,and if gitian is truly
>>>> required to be used, or used in parallel, or at all..
>>>>
>>>> Feedback appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Roy Osherove
>>>>
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>>>>    - Or *my new course* about Beautiful Builds
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>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Roy Osherove
>>
>>    - *@RoyOsherove* <https://twitter.com/RoyOsherove>
>>    - Read my new book *Notes to a Software Team Leader
>> <http://TeamLeadSkills.com>*
>>    - Or *my new course* about Beautiful Builds
>> <http://courses.osherove.com> and Continuous Delivery
>>    - +1-201-256-5575
>>     - Timezone: Eastern Standard Time (New York)
>>
>>
>>
>


-- 
Thanks,

Roy Osherove

   - *@RoyOsherove* <https://twitter.com/RoyOsherove>
   - Read my new book *Notes to a Software Team Leader
<http://TeamLeadSkills.com>*
   - Or *my new course* about Beautiful Builds <http://courses.osherove.com>
and Continuous Delivery
   - +1-201-256-5575
    - Timezone: Eastern Standard Time (New York)

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