Enhancements for bitcoind

[zachlym@…]

I was trying to modify your bitcoind portfile to install namecoind and failed utterly. However, I have previously figured out some things while installing Namecoin which you might find helpful. Everything should work with Bitcoin but no promises : )

Auto-setup bitcoin.conf:

RPCPASS=`openssl rand -hex 7`
RPCUSER=`whoami`
echo "rpcuser=$RPCUSER \nrpcpassword=$RPCPASS \nrpcport=8336" > ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf

I believe you can also set 'daemon=1' in bitcoin.conf and avoid the (irritatingly redundant) bitcoind -deamon switch.

Your comments mention something about automake and config, I think you just use the normal 'make -f makefile.osx' and set 'use_configure no'.

Your post install notes comments should mention something about ​bootstrap.dat so the user doesn't have to wait 72 hours for their blockchain to be built.

[zachlym@…]

Actually, I think that bootstrap.dat should be included in the standard install or at the very least as a variant.

[zachlym@…]

Cc Me!

[zachlym@…]

I was trying to modify your bitcoind portfile to install namecoind and failed utterly. However, I have previously figured out some things while installing Namecoin which you might find helpful. Everything should work with Bitcoin but no promises : )

Auto-setup bitcoin.conf:

RPCPASS=`openssl rand -hex 20`
RPCUSER=`whoami`
echo "rpcuser=$RPCUSER \nrpcpassword=$RPCPASS \nrpcport=8336" > ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf

I believe you can also set 'daemon=1' in bitcoin.conf and avoid the (irritatingly redundant) bitcoind -deamon switch.

Your comments mention something about automake and config, I think you just use the normal 'make -f makefile.osx' and set 'use_configure no'.

Your post install notes comments should mention something about ​bootstrap.dat so the user doesn't have to wait 72 hours for their blockchain to be built.

[zachlym@…]

Replying to zachlym@…:

I was trying to modify your bitcoind portfile to install namecoind and failed utterly. However, I have previously figured out some things while installing Namecoin which you might find helpful. Everything should work with Bitcoin but no promises : )

Auto-setup bitcoin.conf:

RPCPASS=`openssl rand -hex 20`
RPCUSER=`whoami`
echo "rpcuser=$RPCUSER \nrpcpassword=$RPCPASS \nrpcport=8336" > ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf

I believe you can also set 'daemon=1' in bitcoin.conf and avoid the (irritatingly redundant) bitcoind -deamon switch.

Your comments mention something about automake and config, I think you just use the normal 'make -f makefile.osx' and set 'use_configure no'.

Your post install notes comments should mention something about ​bootstrap.dat so the user doesn't have to wait 72 hours for their blockchain to be built.

Ugh, I'm sorry, I meant to change the actual ticket to increase the password length. Hex only has 16 characters, I had used base63 previously but I thought the /'s might cause parsing trouble at some point.... perhaps I shouldn't try to make edits at 1:00. :p

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

bitcoind was replaced by bitcoin in [c0c14bb9b2f66b7b05bd2e230f83ecca696bb61f/macports-ports] and then removed in [768867f24e9c2f589795daa1b7169342ed9cf2ec/macports-ports].