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Gamonics

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Registered: 2015-02-10

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[SOLVED] Why was Bitcoin Core split up into two packages?

The Bitcoin wiki makes no mention of the bitcoin-cli package.

When I follow the wiki instructions, I end up with only a single binary (/usr/bin/bitcoind) and when I attempt to run it from the command line I get this:

$ bitcoind help
Error: There is no RPC client functionality in bitcoind anymore. Use the bitcoin-cli utility instead.

And now it looks like Bitcoin Core from bitcoin.org was split up into two packages:

bitcoin-daemon and bitcoin-cli

Just wondering why that was done. Also, how might I go about reviewing other changes to the Bitcoin Core upstream that were made in packaging it for Arch?

Last edited by Gamonics (2015-02-20 09:47:22)

Gamonics

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From: Rhode Island, USA

Registered: 2015-02-10

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Re: [SOLVED] Why was Bitcoin Core split up into two packages?

Hmm... Sorry. Just noticed this. So is that separation in the upstream code then? I see now that it clearly is.

I'll see if I can make some small changes to the wiki to bring to light the fact that it might be desirable to install one, two, or all three of the upstream tools: bitcoind, bitcoin-cli, and bitcoin-qt.

Last edited by Gamonics (2015-02-20 09:49:14)