Re: What happened to the net/bitcoin port? Also, any willing maintainer?

2017-01-26 Thread poweruser
On 2017-01-26 20:28, poweru...@openmailbox.org wrote: On 2017-01-26 19:49, Michel Behr wrote: It seems like a deadlock: Bitcoin deals with money (very serious), but ports offer no guarantee, and naive users put their trust on ports. Ideas: even more explicit messages like "IF YOU LOOSE YOUR BTC

Re: What happened to the net/bitcoin port? Also, any willing maintainer?

2017-01-26 Thread poweruser
On 2017-01-26 19:49, Michel Behr wrote: It seems like a deadlock: Bitcoin deals with money (very serious), but ports offer no guarantee, and naive users put their trust on ports. Ideas: even more explicit messages like "IF YOU LOOSE YOUR BTCs IT'S YOUR PROBLEM"; plus a specially rigorous criteri

Re: What happened to the net/bitcoin port? Also, any willing maintainer?

2017-01-26 Thread poweruser
On 2017-01-26 17:33, Stuart Henderson wrote: .. OpenBSD runs BitcoinD well. Previously there's been a "net/bitcoin" port, discussed at http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&r=2&s=bitcoin&q=b&w=4 and https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=138471129220805&w=2 (whole thread not sure how to get the link

Re: Here is how to build and install BitcoinD (0.11.2 = latest) on OpenBSD. Can you please make a "net/bitcoin" port of these instructions?

2017-01-25 Thread poweruser
ran into a wall in my ports system skills that was all. Details in the 2015 thread above.) Poweruser On 2015-12-16 18:50, Pascal Stumpf wrote: I think this needs some serious work, at least an updated databases/db/v4 and some solution to that ugly LibreSSL problem. I'm not really using th

What happened to the net/bitcoin port? Also, any willing maintainer?

2017-01-25 Thread poweruser
e only one. (They even recently renamed the project to "bitcoin core" however "bitcoind" is a sensible name.) Thanks! Poweruser

Anyone wants to wrap up my BitcoinD install instructions into an actual "net/bitcoin" port? Re: Here is how to build and install BitcoinD (0.11.2 = latest) on OpenBSD. [..]

2016-01-03 Thread poweruser
Anyone? I'll be happy to guide through the process. Will make extremely good use of the 2.5 years old "net/bitcoin" OpenBSD-WIP port. (Alternatively possibly I could try to do it myself and then document where things seriously break here, and ask for your followup. Maybe that followup basi

Re: Here is how to build and install BitcoinD (0.11.2 = latest) on OpenBSD. Can you please make a "net/bitcoin" port of these instructions?

2015-12-16 Thread poweruser
configure arguments etc. are >> provided, and this is all a patch to the openbsd-wip bitcoind port >> already, so the hard work is already done. >> >> >> Please let me know when you got it in place? >> >> Thanks!! >> Poweruser >>

Re: Here is how to build and install BitcoinD (0.11.2 = latest) on OpenBSD. Can you please make a "net/bitcoin" port of these instructions?

2015-12-16 Thread poweruser
On 2015-12-16 19:04, poweru...@openmailbox.org wrote: .. For this reason I suggest that OpenBSD is included into the ports tree! Err - for this reason I suggest that *BitcoinD* is included into the ports tree. That it's precompiled with "--disable-wallet" is all fine. If anyone wants to fi

Re: Here is how to build and install BitcoinD (0.11.2 = latest) on OpenBSD. Can you please make a "net/bitcoin" port of these instructions?

2015-12-16 Thread poweruser
e, and you can incredibly quickly pull together the actual port for it. Which the exact patches are and the exact configure arguments etc. are provided, and this is all a patch to the openbsd-wip bitcoind port already, so the hard work is already done. Please let me know when you got it in place?

Re: Here is how to build and install BitcoinD (0.11.2 = latest) on OpenBSD. Can you please make a "net/bitcoin" port of these instructions?

2015-12-15 Thread poweruser
oind port already, so the hard work is already done. Please let me know when you got it in place? Thanks!! Poweruser A google search on this topic mentions http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2015/02/14/notes-on-building-bitcoin-qt-on-openbsd/ also. Also this post should be followed up o

Here is how to build and install BitcoinD (0.11.2 = latest) on OpenBSD. Can you please make a "net/bitcoin" port of these instructions?

2015-12-15 Thread poweruser
ickly pull together the actual port for it. Which the exact patches are and the exact configure arguments etc. are provided, and this is all a patch to the openbsd-wip bitcoind port already, so the hard work is already done. Please let me know when you got it in place? Thanks!! Poweruser