FS#40876 - [bitcoin-daemon] bitcoin-cli binary is missing

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Sid Karunaratne (sakaru) - Tuesday, 17 June 2014, 16:12 GMT
Last edited by Timothy Redaelli (tredaelli) - Monday, 14 July 2014, 13:06 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Timothy Redaelli (tredaelli)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

Additional info:
* Upstream version 0.9.2 has added the bitcoin-cli binary. Version 0.9.2-1 does not install the bitcoin-cli binary.

Steps to reproduce:
Install bitcoin-daemon 0.9.2-1, try to run bitcoin-cli. It doesn't exist.

bitcoin-cli is a subset of the bitcoind binary, so having both installed isn't too useful, except for being semantically cleaner. Perhaps it's better to create a new sub-package which installs lets a user install bitcoin-cli without the bitcoind binary. This would allow people to query a bitcoind instance running on another machine without installing bitcoind also on the client machine.

I have attached a PKGBUILD which adds a bitcoin-cli sub-package though I would like some discussion on this as I don't know the best solution.
   PKGBUILD (3 KiB)
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Closed by  Timothy Redaelli (tredaelli)
Monday, 14 July 2014, 13:06 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Comment by Sid Karunaratne (sakaru) - Tuesday, 17 June 2014, 16:16 GMT
It seems I forgot to enter a summary. Could someone please change it to 'bitcoin-cli binary is missing'? Alternatively close this ticket and I'll file a new one with a corrected summary.

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