[Dev] Packaging feathercoind and feathercoin-qt on Linux

Wellenreiter

Some weeks ago I started to create installation Packages for Linux distributions.
The packages will be located on a repository server and can be installed with the distributions package manager. That way all dependencies are solved automatically and automatic updates will be possible. All repositories are signed, so a basic security against modified executables will be provided.

Currently I’m planning of create packages for the following Disttributions:

Opensuse
13.1: feathercoind, feathercoin-qt (GUI)
13.2: feathercoind, feathercoin-qt (GUI)
Debian
Version 7: feathercoind, feathercoin-qt (GUI)
Version 8: feathercoind, feathercoin-qt (GUI)
Ubuntu

Other distributions may be added upon demand.
I will give regular updates about the status of the package build here.

Volunteers and feedback are welcome :smile:

mirrax

If you can make first Ubuntu :)

Wellenreiter

I always start with Opensuse, as this is my ‘home’ distribution and I’m familiar with that one.
Adapting to Debian/Ubuntu is easier for me, than doing Ubuntu first and then the other distributions.

In any case I will release for all distributions mentioned above at the same date.

Wellenreiter

Status of packaging

I will use this post for updates on the progress.
It will be edited to reflect updates

2015/8/14:
**packaging of feathercoind for Opensuse working
** working to get libraries for qr code handling packaged on OpensuseOpensuse
2015/8/15:
** libraries handling qr-code packaged for Opensuse and available at software.opensuse.org (search for libzxing)
2015/8/16:
** libraries handling qr-code packaged for xUbunutu and available at software.opensuse.org (search for libzxing)
** packaging of qr-code libraries for Debian in progress
2015/8/17
** libraries handling qr-code packaged for Fedora and available at software.opensuse.org (search for libzxing)
2015/08/23
** packaging of qr-code libraries for Debian 7 done and available at software.opensuse.org (search for libzxing)
2015/09/09
** packaging of qr-code libraries for Debian 8 done and available at software.opensuse.org (search for libzxing)
2015/10/08
** packaging of feathercoind and gui-wallet for Ubuntu 14.04 14.10 and 15.04, 32 and 64 Bit are done. ~~Packages are available upon request.~~ Packages are available here under ‘unstable’ as the packages are not part of the official distribution
2015/10/10
** packaging of feathercoind and gui-wallet for Debian 8, 32 Bit done. Packages are available here under ‘unstable’ as the packages are not part of the official distribution
2015/10/15
** packaging of feathercoind and gui-wallet for Debian 8, 64 Bit done. Packages are available here under ‘unstable’ as the packages are not part of the official distribution
2015/10/31
** packaging of feathercoind and gui-wallet for Fedora 20 64 and 32 bit done. Packages are available here under ‘unstable’ as the packages are not part of the official distribution
** packaging of feathercoind and gui-wallet for Fedora 21, 64 and 32 bit done. Packages are available here under ‘unstable’ as the packages are not part of the official distribution
** packaging of feathercoind and gui-wallet for Fedora 22, 64 and 32 bit done. Packages are available here under ‘unstable’ as the packages are not part of the official distribution
** packaging of feathercoind and gui-wallet for Opensuse 13.2 64 and 32 bit done. Packages are available here under ‘unstable’ as the packages are not part of the official distribution

Wellenreiter

Status post updated

Wellenreiter

Packaging of libzxing for Debian 7 done.
Packages are available at:

https://build.opensuse.org/package/binaries/home:wellenreiter01/libzxing?repository=Debian_7.0

Wellenreiter

Just a status update: I was occupied with other topics the last days.

Will focus on Ubuntu next, as Debian 7 is using qt4 only, which is causing issues when compiling the GUI Version and Debian 8 has a broken build chain for cmake, making it impossible at the moment to compile libzxing in my environment

Wellenreiter

Broken build chain for Debian 8 fixed

Packaging of libzxing for Debian 8 done.
Packages are available at:
https://build.opensuse.org/package/binaries/home:wellenreiter01/libzxing?repository=Debian_8.0

Wellenreiter

Packaging for Ubuntu is done.

surfguy72

awesome!

Wellenreiter

Some fine tuning still needs to be done and I need to describe how to add the repository to the sources list on the local PC.

Wellenreiter

Packaging of feathercoind and gui-wallet for Debian 8, 32 Bit done.

Wellenreiter

Packaging of feathercoind and gui-wallet for Debian 8, 64 Bit done. Packages are available upon request.

Wellenreiter

As Version 0.9.3 was released today the Installation packages (.rpm / .deb) are made available here under ‘unstable’ as the packages are not part of the official distributions.

Updated also the status post above

Wellenreiter

2015/10/31

packaging of feathercoind and gui-wallet for Fedora 20 64 and 32 bit done. Packages are available here under ‘unstable’ as the packages are not part of the official distribution
packaging of feathercoind and gui-wallet for Fedora 21, 64 and 32 bit done. Packages are available here under ‘unstable’ as the packages are not part of the official distribution
packaging of feathercoind and gui-wallet for Fedora 22, 64 and 32 bit done. Packages are available here under ‘unstable’ as the packages are not part of the official distribution
packaging of feathercoind and gui-wallet for OpenSuSE 13.2 , 64 and 32 bit done. Packages are available here under ‘unstable’ as the packages are not part of the official distribution

wrapper

Just a note that Feathercoin name is available for the Opensuse build service, might be worth having the Official builds there …

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/

wrapper

Building 0.8.7.3 and 0.9.3.1 on Ubuntu

Build service errors

Currently I get this error messages:

CXX rpcrawtransaction.o
[ 590s] In file included from /usr/include/boost/move/detail/type_traits.hpp:34:0,
[ 590s] from /usr/include/boost/move/core.hpp:54,
[ 590s] from /usr/include/boost/move/utility_core.hpp:29,
[ 590s] from /usr/include/boost/move/utility.hpp:28,
[ 590s] from /usr/include/boost/thread/detail/move.hpp:27,
[ 590s] from /usr/include/boost/thread/lock_types.hpp:11,
[ 590s] from /usr/include/boost/thread/pthread/mutex.hpp:16,
[ 590s] from /usr/include/boost/thread/mutex.hpp:16,
[ 590s] from allocators.h:13,
[ 590s] from serialize.h:9,
[ 590s] from bignum.h:9,
[ 590s] from chainparams.h:9,
[ 590s] from base58.h:17,
[ 590s] from rpcrawtransaction.cpp:6:
[ 590s] /usr/include/boost/variant/get.hpp: In instantiation of ‘typename boost::add_reference<T>::type boost::strict_get(boost::variant<T0, T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6, T7, T8, T9, T10, T11, T12, T13, T14, T15, T16, T17, T18, T19>&) [with U = const CScriptID&; T0 = CNoDestination; T1 = CKeyID; T2 = CScriptID; T3 = CStealthAddress; T4 = boost::detail::variant::void_; T5 = boost::detail::variant::void_; T6 = boost::detail::variant::void_; T7 = boost::detail::variant::void_; T8 = boost::detail::variant::void_; T9 = boost::detail::variant::void_; T10 = boost::detail::variant::void_; T11 = boost::detail::variant::void_; T12 = boost::detail::variant::void_; T13 = boost::detail::variant::void_; T14 = boost::detail::variant::void_; T15 = boost::detail::variant::void_; T16 = boost::detail::variant::void_; T17 = boost::detail::variant::void_; T18 = boost::detail::variant::void_; T19 = boost::detail::variant::void_; typename boost::add_reference<T>::type = const CScriptID&]’:
[ 590s] /usr/include/boost/variant/get.hpp:284:25: required from ‘typename boost::add_reference<T>::type boost::get(boost::variant<T0, T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6, T7, T8, T9, T10, T11, T12, T13, T14, T15, T16, T17, T18, T19>&) [with U = const CScriptID&; T0 = CNoDestination; T1 = CKeyID; T2 = CScriptID; T3 = CStealthAddress; T4 = boost::detail::variant::void_; T5 = boost::detail::variant::void_; T6 = boost::detail::variant::void_; T7 = boost::detail::variant::void_; T8 = boost::detail::variant::void_; T9 = boost::detail::variant::void_; T10 = boost::detail::variant::void_; T11 = boost::detail::variant::void_; T12 = boost::detail::variant::void_; T13 = boost::detail::variant::void_; T14 = boost::detail::variant::void_; T15 = boost::detail::variant::void_; T16 = boost::detail::variant::void_; T17 = boost::detail::variant::void_; T18 = boost::detail::variant::void_; T19 = boost::detail::variant::void_; typename boost::add_reference<T>::type = const CScriptID&]’
[ 590s] rpcrawtransaction.cpp:299:77: required from here
[ 590s] /usr/include/boost/variant/get.hpp:178:5: error: invalid application of ‘sizeof’ to incomplete type ‘boost::STATIC_ASSERTION_FAILURE<false>’
[ 590s] BOOST_STATIC_ASSERT_MSG(
[ 590s] ^

The same code is compiling fine on Ubuntu 15.04, Debian 8 and other distributions.

Possible answers being looked at :

Just reading about a similar problem compiling :

I think that the problem is that you put #ifdef instead of #ifndef at the top of your header.h file

a search for what includes boost showed - checkpoints.h

Which is a likely area for an error as it is included code for FTC. However, I can’t see a logical error in variable definition there, yet …

https://github.com/FeatherCoin/Feathercoin/blob/0.9.3.1/src/checkpoints.h

Also note https://github.com/FeatherCoin/Feathercoin/blob/0.9.3.1/src/rpcprotocol.cpp

last change was to fix compile error …

Also noted libqt5core5a replaces libqt5core5 mentioned in master-0.8/doc/readme-qt.rst

wrapper

7230328 Jun 8 20:55

feathercoin-qt 0.8.7.3 now compiles for me under Kubuntu 15.10

Method :
Installing the 12.04 dependencies from master-0.8/doc/readme-qt.rst

A Library has changed name and become libqt5core5a, install that

qmake
make

wrapper

Tried to register the Feathercoin name on opensuse build service but it has been taken (and abandoned ) by [email protected]

Gonna contact him to get the name.

wrapper

Building Feathercoind

0.8.7.3 - buildunit.txt

sudo apt-get install libboost1.37-dev fails

In Kubuntu 15.10 this is now libboost1.58-dev

warning during compile :

main.cpp: In function ‘bool ProcessBlock(CValidationState&, CNode*, CBlock*, CDiskBlockPos*)’:
main.cpp:2374:150: warning: format ‘%u’ expects argument of type ‘unsigned int’, but argument 2 has type ‘int64 {aka long long int}’ [-Wformat=]
return error(“ProcessBlock() : block has a time stamp of %u before the last checkpoint of %u”, pblock->GetBlockTime(), pcheckpoint->nTime);

feathercoind builds

This is the code at line 2374 main.cpp

    if((pblock->GetBlockTime() - pcheckpoint->nTime) < 0) {
        if(pfrom) pfrom->Misbehaving(100);
        return error("ProcessBlock() : block has a time stamp of %u before the last checkpoint of %u", pblock->GetBlockTime(), pcheckpoint->nTime);
    }

    // Here was some code to verify block difficulty upon block and checkpoint
    // time difference which had never worked well in general and was broken
    // across the hard forks for Feathercoin in particular

Note: ProcessBlock()

There is a mismatch to how ProcessBlock is called in main and rpcmining.cpp - it looks like there is a bug in main.cpp should be &pblock …

src/miner.cpp
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// Process this block the same as if we had received it from another node
CValidationState state;
if (!ProcessBlock(state, NULL, pblock))
return error(“FeathercoinMiner : ProcessBlock, block not accepted”);
}

return true;
}

src/rpcmining.cpp
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throw JSONRPCError(RPC_DESERIALIZATION_ERROR, “Block decode failed”);
}

CValidationState state;
bool fAccepted = ProcessBlock(state, NULL, &pblock);
if (!fAccepted)