[arch-general] bitcoin-qt out-of-date

[Diego Viola]

On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Emily Shepherd via arch-general
<arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 01:13:00PM -0300, Diego Viola via arch-general
> wrote:
>>
>> Thing is, I use bitcoin-qt to get paid for work, and I'm not going to
>> put my hard earned money on random AUR packages for this.
>>
>> The reason I trust the package from the repo is that I'm hoping I can
>> verify by signing them in some way, but there's no way I'm using some
>> random AUR package for this.
>
>
> Why not just get the PKGBUILD[1] for bitcoin-qt, make whatever updates you
> want to get it up-to-date and then build it yourself? Then you wouldn't have
> an issue of trust, surely?
>
> [1] Either through abs or
> https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/bitcoin
>
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Yes, I think that's the best approach, I'll do that, thanks.

Sorry for the noise.

Diego