Bug 420071 – net-misc/electrum - Lightweight Bitcoin client

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Maks Verver 2012-06-07 10:14:58 UTC]

Electrum is a lightweight Bitcoin client, implemented in Python, with a GTK or Qt4 GUI.

Since this client only connects to a server, not to other peers, I suggest net-misc instead of net-p2p (where the other Bitcoin daemons/clients live).

It requires two additional Python libraries which implement AES and ECDSA in pure Python.  I will attach these here as well.

[Comment 1 Maks Verver 2012-06-07 10:15:29 UTC]

Created attachment 314519 [details]
The main ebuild.

[Comment 2 Maks Verver 2012-06-07 10:16:03 UTC]

Created attachment 314521 [details]
dev-python/ecdsa ebuild

[Comment 3 Maks Verver 2012-06-07 10:16:50 UTC]

Created attachment 314523 [details]
dev-python/slowaes ebuild

[Comment 4 Luke-Jr 2012-06-19 18:09:49 UTC]

Your dev-python/ecdsa needs a s/P/PN/ in the source URI.

I've imported this into the bitcoin overlay.

It seems to basically work, but segfaulted when I closed it.

[Comment 5 Dennis Schridde 2012-09-03 14:25:16 UTC]

Version 0.61 was released and the ebuild needs to change:
HOMEPAGE="http://electrum-desktop.com/"

[Comment 6 Dennis Schridde 2012-09-03 14:32:56 UTC]

Could you please add an ebuild for electrum-server (https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum-server)?

[Comment 7 Maks Verver 2012-09-14 22:44:37 UTC]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Version 0.61 was released and the ebuild needs to change:
> HOMEPAGE="http://electrum-desktop.com/"

Good point.  I've updated the ebuild to version 1.0 in sunrise (but I'll attach it here as well, for completeness sake).

[Comment 8 Maks Verver 2012-09-14 22:50:28 UTC]

Created attachment 323818 [details]
net-misc/electrum ebuild for version 1.0

[Comment 9 Luke-Jr 2012-09-14 22:54:27 UTC]

Could you update the bitcoin overlay if you get a chance as well?

[Comment 10 Anthony Basile 2012-09-16 21:55:47 UTC]

Its in the tree.  I'll be maintaining it with Luke-jr.