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bc8863b819depends: remove usage of TAR_OPTIONS (fanquake)3ff1f2a319build: remove export GZIP from gitian descriptors (fanquake) Pull request description: The `GZIP` environment variable is [deprecated](https://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/manual/gzip.html#Environment), and everywhere that we invoke `gzip` we are already passing `-9n` directly, i.e: ```base find bitcoin-* | sort | tar --no-recursion --mode='u+rw,go+r-w,a+X' --owner=0 --group=0 -c -T - | gzip -9n > ../$SOURCEDIST ``` ```bash GZIP="-9n" gzip -h gzip: warning: GZIP environment variable is deprecated; use an alias or script Usage: gzip [OPTION]... [FILE]... ``` ACKs for commit bc8863: Tree-SHA512: 2d5277f7bf096fd5bd0dda47dfaf2dc7a31cc5d91eb8cb42db9cbe060d07dff66bf8e1122a89a3a1b597a3b39dbf8d9a8da4f02e642f58e451ce9fb24cc59769
Repository Tools
Developer tools
Specific tools for developers working on this repository.
Contains the script github-merge.py for merging GitHub pull requests securely and signing them using GPG.
Verify-Commits
Tool to verify that every merge commit was signed by a developer using the above github-merge.py script.
Linearize
Construct a linear, no-fork, best version of the blockchain.
Qos
A Linux bash script that will set up traffic control (tc) to limit the outgoing bandwidth for connections to the Bitcoin network. This means one can have an always-on bitcoind instance running, and another local bitcoind/bitcoin-qt instance which connects to this node and receives blocks from it.
Seeds
Utility to generate the pnSeed[] array that is compiled into the client.
Build Tools and Keys
Packaging
The Debian subfolder contains the copyright file.
All other packaging related files can be found in the bitcoin-core/packaging repository.
Gitian-descriptors
Files used during the gitian build process. For more information about gitian, see the the Bitcoin Core documentation repository.
Gitian-keys
PGP keys used for signing Bitcoin Core Gitian release results.
MacDeploy
Scripts and notes for Mac builds.
Gitian-build
Script for running full Gitian builds.
Test and Verify Tools
TestGen
Utilities to generate test vectors for the data-driven Bitcoin tests.
Verify Binaries
This script attempts to download and verify the signature file SHA256SUMS.asc from bitcoin.org.