github.com/inphi/go-ethereum@v1.9.7/build/ci-notes.md (about) 1 # Debian Packaging 2 3 Tagged releases and develop branch commits are available as installable Debian packages 4 for Ubuntu. Packages are built for the all Ubuntu versions which are supported by 5 Canonical. 6 7 Packages of develop branch commits have suffix -unstable and cannot be installed alongside 8 the stable version. Switching between release streams requires user intervention. 9 10 ## Launchpad 11 12 The packages are built and served by launchpad.net. We generate a Debian source package 13 for each distribution and upload it. Their builder picks up the source package, builds it 14 and installs the new version into the PPA repository. Launchpad requires a valid signature 15 by a team member for source package uploads. 16 17 The signing key is stored in an environment variable which Travis CI makes available to 18 certain builds. Since Travis CI doesn't support FTP, SFTP is used to transfer the 19 packages. To set this up yourself, you need to create a Launchpad user and add a GPG key 20 and SSH key to it. Then encode both keys as base64 and configure 'secret' environment 21 variables `PPA_SIGNING_KEY` and `PPA_SSH_KEY` on Travis. 22 23 We want to build go-ethereum with the most recent version of Go, irrespective of the Go 24 version that is available in the main Ubuntu repository. In order to make this possible, 25 we bundle the entire Go sources into our own source archive and start the built job by 26 compiling Go and then using that to build go-ethereum. On Trusty we have a special case 27 requiring the `~gophers/ubuntu/archive` PPA since Trusty can't even build Go itself. PPA 28 deps are set at https://launchpad.net/%7Eethereum/+archive/ubuntu/ethereum/+edit-dependencies 29 30 ## Building Packages Locally (for testing) 31 32 You need to run Ubuntu to do test packaging. 33 34 Install any version of Go and Debian packaging tools: 35 36 $ sudo apt-get install build-essential golang-go devscripts debhelper python-bzrlib python-paramiko 37 38 Create the source packages: 39 40 $ go run build/ci.go debsrc -workdir dist 41 42 Then go into the source package directory for your running distribution and build the package: 43 44 $ cd dist/ethereum-unstable-1.9.6+bionic 45 $ dpkg-buildpackage 46 47 Built packages are placed in the dist/ directory. 48 49 $ cd .. 50 $ dpkg-deb -c geth-unstable_1.9.6+bionic_amd64.deb