gitian buildling on debian 9.5

gitian.md

Some changes are needed to build on debian because of the switch of the guest OS to bionic.

lxc that comes with debian is not high enough version to support bionic (the minimum is 2.1.1), so need to build from scratch.

debootstrap that comes with debian will give the following error:

    $ bin/make-base-vm --lxc --suite bionic --arch amd64                                                                                              
    E: No such script: /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts/bionic

dependencies for gitian buildling on debian 9.5:

    apt-get install autoconf automake pkg-config libcap-dev

    # get lxc 3.0.1
    git clone https://github.com/lxc/lxc.git
    cd lxc
    git checkout lxc-3.0.1
    ./autogen.sh
    ./configure
    sudo make install

    # get debootstrap
    wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/d/debootstrap/debootstrap_1.0.95.tar.gz
    tar -zxvf debootstrap_1.0.95.tar.gz
    cd debootstrap-1.0.95 
    sudo make install

• if you forget to install libcap-dev before building lxc, lxc-execute is going to fail because an essential program init.lxc.static is not built

when I did sudo make install for LXC, it doesn't install 3.0.1 LXC to regular path path. Instead, it created a .libs folder in src/lxc.
I had to configure LXC with
./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --libexecdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --with-rootfs-path=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lxc
for it to work
(This is from clean debian 9 host)

Also missing from dependencies is libtool

when I did sudo make install for LXC, it doesn't install 3.0.1 LXC to regular path path. Instead, it created a .libs folder in src/lxc.
I had to configure LXC with
./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --libexecdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --with-rootfs-path=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lxc
for it to work
(This is from clean debian 9 host)

+1 for this issue on Debian 9.7

thanks the tip! however i tried on fresh debian 8.10, 9.5 and 10.5, but i got same error. any suggest? tag bitcoin 0.20.1

• error log

$ ./gitian-build.py --setup

base-bionic-amd64 already exists, please remove it first
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./gitian-build.py", line 262, in <module>
    main()
  File "./gitian-build.py", line 198, in main
    setup()
  File "./gitian-build.py", line 42, in setup
    subprocess.check_call(make_image_prog)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 271, in check_call
    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['bin/make-base-vm', '--suite', 'bionic', '--arch', 'amd64', '--lxc']' returned non-zero exit status 1

i many failed on debian 9.5 and 10.5. but finally succeed on ubuntu 18.04 thanks!
https://gist.github.com/decryp2kanon/67730da9e5f78bfb07f555d106b36686

gitian-builder issue on debian 9 and 10
devrandom/gitian-builder#224