Package Details: bitcoin-cash-node 29.0.0-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/bitcoin-cash-node.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: bitcoin-cash-node
Description: Bitcoin Cash Node with bitcoind, bitcoin-tx, bitcoin-seeder and bitcoin-cli
Upstream URL: https://bitcoincashnode.org
Licenses: MIT
Conflicts: bitcoin-cli, bitcoin-daemon, bitcoin-seeder, bitcoin-tx
Provides: bitcoin-cli, bitcoin-daemon, bitcoin-seeder, bitcoin-tx
Submitter: quest
Maintainer: quest
Last Packager: quest
Votes: 3
Popularity: 0.000004
First Submitted: 2020-02-27 07:19 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2026-02-19 02:31 (UTC)

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AlD commented on 2021-02-18 00:04 (UTC) (edited on 2021-02-18 00:04 (UTC) by AlD)

I created the bitcoin-cash(-qt) packages that address the below concerns and then some. Here's the commit message (https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=bitcoin-cash&id=3224ab8b548e35bb3550222d99b0c10fd57282e1):

bitcoin-cash(-qt)

  • Remove hacky user/directory management in postinstall scripts
  • Add systemd-sysusers and systemd-tmpfiles configs
  • Make bitcoin user a system user
  • Get rid of potentially harmful directory removals
  • Only bundle the GUI binary stuff in the -qt package and make it depend on the base package
  • Merge packages into a single split PKGBUILD
  • Add RuntimeDirectory to service units

Feel free to merge the changes back into this pkgbuild. Otherwise I'll try to keep the fork up to date.

quest commented on 2020-11-21 01:53 (UTC)

If you want to send me a diff for the PKGBUILD that can rename the directory on removal, and restore it on install that would be great.

pizzaman commented on 2020-11-20 23:50 (UTC) (edited on 2020-11-20 23:51 (UTC) by pizzaman)

@quest That makes sense, but also you have to consider the possible MAJOR catastrophic monetary and time consequences of deleting people's wallet.dat and 100s GB of blockchain without any warning. I couldn't find references Archlinux's policy regarding user data, but I see this akin to deleting /user/pictures when you uninstall GIMP.

What about one of these:
- Rename vs Remove and inform user it has been renamed?
- Information on the package about the possibility of deleted user data https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=234413
- Leave to the user to remove/rename folder after uninstall

quest commented on 2020-11-20 02:45 (UTC)

I can't replicate your error, in fact the install script creates /run/bitcoin, just double checked.

As for the srv directory, I remove it because the bitcoin packages use the same path. There are many packages that are not compatible with that data directory.

pizzaman commented on 2020-11-19 20:53 (UTC) (edited on 2020-11-19 20:56 (UTC) by pizzaman) 

bitcoind[903]: Error: Unable to create the PID file '/run/bitcoin/bitcoind.pid': No such file or directory

Directory /run/bitcoin doesn't exist. Creating it manually and changing owership to bitcoin:bitcoin fixes the problem until the next reboot.

You might want to pass along a tmpfile.d config https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd#systemd-tmpfiles_-_temporary_files

Also in your post_remove you "rm -rf /srv/bitcoin /run/bitcoin" imo, this is quite dangerous since it might accidentally delete wallet.dat/blockchain if people decide to upgrade to a different package or whatnot.

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