Help wanted to test Bitcoin ppa

[graingert]

New bitcoin ppa is available at https://launchpad.net/%7Ebitcoin/+archive/bitcoin

Currently contains bitcoin-qt and bitcoind at 0.5.0 RC1 but will eventually become the stable channel for bitcoin updates once 0.5.0 is released.

Backup wallet
to install:

Backup wallet
remove stretch's ppa if you have it

Code:

sudo ppa-purge ppa:stretch/bitcoin

add new repository

Code:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin

update repo listings and install

Code:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install bitcoin-qt

[blueadept]

Installed bitcoind via this PPA and it seems to work just fine after install with my testnet configuration.  I'm on Maverick running as follows:

Code:

~$ uname -a
Linux ******* 2.6.35-30-generic #61-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 11 15:29:15 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
~$

[mav]

I just updated to 0.6.2 from the ppa and I get no version information in bitcoin-qt

see

https://i.imgur.com/BvRKi.png

and from bitcoind getinfo to confirm the version

Code:

{
    "version" : 60200,
    "protocolversion" : 60001,
    "walletversion" : 40000,

[freewil]

I just updated to 0.6.2 from the ppa and I get no version information in bitcoin-qt

see

https://i.imgur.com/BvRKi.png

and from bitcoind getinfo to confirm the version

Code:

{
    "version" : 60200,
    "protocolversion" : 60001,
    "walletversion" : 40000,

I've seen this too somewhere in the cli, it's not isolated to just 0.6.2

Code:

$ bitcoind -?
Bitcoin version vCLIENT_VERSION_MAJOR.CLIENT_VERSION_MINOR.CLIENT_VERSION_REVISION.CLIENT_VERSION_BUILD-g8ff1873-beta

[paraipan]

I just updated to 0.6.2 from the ppa and I get no version information in bitcoin-qt

see

https://i.imgur.com/BvRKi.png

and from bitcoind getinfo to confirm the version

Code:

{
    "version" : 60200,
    "protocolversion" : 60001,
    "walletversion" : 40000,

I've seen this too somewhere in the cli, it's not isolated to just 0.6.2

Code:

$ bitcoind -?
Bitcoin version vCLIENT_VERSION_MAJOR.CLIENT_VERSION_MINOR.CLIENT_VERSION_REVISION.CLIENT_VERSION_BUILD-g8ff1873-beta

+1, at first i though it was the translation fault

[Pieter Wuille]

We switched to a new system for automatically determining the client version based on git information, or data stored in source archives. It was tested for both compiles from git and source tarballs, but a refactor shortly afterwards broke the second mode. We only noticed much later, since the normal official builds are done from git.

In any case, fixed for 0.7.0.