Revision as of 23:43, 29 October 2015

Bitcoin in Fedora

There probably should be two separate SELinux policy modules for the two different ways Bitcoin Core is used.

System Service bitcoind
- Should have its datadir somewhere like %{_datadir}bitcoin/ which expands to /var/lib/bitcoin/
- Config file generated with random rpcuser and rpcpassword as %config(noreplace) %{_datadir}/bitcoin/bitcoin.conf
- With system username like: bitcoinservice
- Wrapper should launch bitcoind in a context named like: bitcoindservice_t
- wallet disabled by default, but they could enable it in %{_datadir}/bitcoin/bitcoin.conf if they really want it.
- %doc README-FEDORA-BITCOIN-SERVICE should probably explain how the service is meant to be configured, used and controlled with bitcoin-cli or RPC/REST interfaces as the non-default datadir does not match upstream documentation and it thus may be non-obvious to users.
User service bitcoind and bitcoin-qt
- The most common way in which Bitcoin Core users run their own bitcoind or bitcoin-qt with is as a non-root user with datadir ~/.bitcoin/.
- There should be a separate user homedir SELinux policy for bitcoind and bitcoin-qt operated in this manner.

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-= Bitcoin =
+= Bitcoin in Fedora =
-== What is it? ==
+== Status ==
+https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1020292
-Bitcoin is a decentralised peer-to-peer currency, [incomplete]
+== RPM Package and SELinux ==
+There probably should be two separate SELinux policy modules for the two different ways Bitcoin Core is used.
+* '''System Service bitcoind'''
+** Should have its datadir somewhere like %{_datadir}bitcoin/ which expands to /var/lib/bitcoin/
+** Config file generated with random rpcuser and rpcpassword as <code>%config(noreplace) %{_datadir}/bitcoin/bitcoin.conf</code>
+** With system username like: <code>bitcoinservice</code>
+** Wrapper should launch bitcoind in a context named like: <code>bitcoindservice_t</code>
+** wallet disabled by default, but they could enable it in %{_datadir}/bitcoin/bitcoin.conf if they really want it.
+** %doc README-FEDORA-BITCOIN-SERVICE should probably explain how the service is meant to be configured, used and controlled with bitcoin-cli or RPC/REST interfaces as the non-default datadir does not match upstream documentation and it thus may be non-obvious to users.
+* '''User service bitcoind and bitcoin-qt'''
+** The most common way in which Bitcoin Core users run their own bitcoind or bitcoin-qt with is as a non-root user with datadir <code>~/.bitcoin/</code>.
+** There should be a separate user homedir SELinux policy for bitcoind and bitcoin-qt operated in this manner.