github.com/luckypickle/go-ethereum-vet@v1.14.2/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 The packages are built and served by launchpad.net. We generate a Debian source package 11 for each distribution and upload it. Their builder picks up the source package, builds it 12 and installs the new version into the PPA repository. Launchpad requires a valid signature 13 by a team member for source package uploads. The signing key is stored in an environment 14 variable which Travis CI makes available to certain builds. 15 16 We want to build go-ethereum with the most recent version of Go, irrespective of the Go 17 version that is available in the main Ubuntu repository. In order to make this possible, 18 our PPA depends on the ~gophers/ubuntu/archive PPA. Our source package build-depends on 19 golang-1.10, which is co-installable alongside the regular golang package. PPA dependencies 20 can be edited at https://launchpad.net/%7Eethereum/+archive/ubuntu/ethereum/+edit-dependencies 21 22 ## Building Packages Locally (for testing) 23 24 You need to run Ubuntu to do test packaging. 25 26 Add the gophers PPA and install Go 1.10 and Debian packaging tools: 27 28 $ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:gophers/ubuntu/archive 29 $ sudo apt-get update 30 $ sudo apt-get install build-essential golang-1.10 devscripts debhelper 31 32 Create the source packages: 33 34 $ go run build/ci.go debsrc -workdir dist 35 36 Then go into the source package directory for your running distribution and build the package: 37 38 $ cd dist/ethereum-unstable-1.6.0+xenial 39 $ dpkg-buildpackage 40 41 Built packages are placed in the dist/ directory. 42 43 $ cd .. 44 $ dpkg-deb -c geth-unstable_1.6.0+xenial_amd64.deb