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authorWladimir J. van der Laan <[email protected]>2018-03-07 14:36:21 +0100
committerWladimir J. van der Laan <[email protected]>2018-03-07 14:36:24 +0100
commit8a709fba9bfa2777561bd5b139a0852768ecb940 (patch)
tree864460c6d5e299f6997fed981ea2e5db29d4b1c4
parentMerge #11372: Address encoding cleanup (diff)
parentGive hint about gitian not able to download (diff)
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Merge #12619: doc: Give hint about gitian not able to download
08e0855b9 Give hint about gitian not able to download (kallewoof) Pull request description: Gitian fails to perform downloads right now on my set up. This can be circumvented by first checking out the tag being built and then doing the depends download step before running `gbuild`. This should of course be fixed in gitian, but having this note until it's fixed is definitely useful. Tree-SHA512: ae9d0eb44ecfdae44d35aecc6e5fd6db7d9e95b8e0badc76a1d9aaf8fe70bc00a2914dfcb4f516d030560835af411515ca13736ebf8b49b7040b340457882779
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@@ -93,7 +93,9 @@ Create the OS X SDK tarball, see the [OS X readme](README_osx.md) for details, a
### Optional: Seed the Gitian sources cache and offline git repositories
-By default, Gitian will fetch source files as needed. To cache them ahead of time:
+NOTE: Gitian is sometimes unable to download files. If you have errors, try the step below.
+
+By default, Gitian will fetch source files as needed. To cache them ahead of time, make sure you have checked out the tag you want to build in bitcoin, then:
pushd ./gitian-builder
make -C ../bitcoin/depends download SOURCES_PATH=`pwd`/cache/common