[Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#693492: litecoin packaging effort join with bitcoin effort?

[Dmitry Smirnov]

On Tue, 4 Dec 2012 13:23:36 Scott Howard wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Shall I also create repositories for some other packages, such as
> > "cgminer" and "cpuminer"?
> 
> I think we can wait until we start packaging them. Packaging CPU
> mining tools probably isn't a good use of time.

Regarding "cpuminer", it is litecoin-only mining tool so it should be OK.

	https://github.com/pooler/cpuminer

I have incomplete packaging for it.

> cgminer depends some
> closed source code but could be interesting to package, although it
> will be contrib.

OK, I didn't have time to review its licensing yet but I also have incomplete 
but functional packaging for "cgminer".


> You might as well do bfgminer too since they are
> similar.

I had a look at bfgminer but wasn't impressed due to lack of documentation.
I'm not even sure what kind of improvements over "cgminer" they've done...


> If you want to get started on packaging it, feel free to work
> on it in a pkg-bitcoin repo.

Thank you,

Cheers,
Dmitry.