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Offline Evan

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It's safe since it downloads the source directly from the official BitShares repository on Github.  That's why the sha256sums line has "SKIP" on it since the contents of the Github repository are not necessarily static.  Unfortunately there is no checksum listed for the source code on the 0.6.2 release (https://github.com/BitShares/bitshares/releases/tag/bts%2F0.6.2), but you could try the 64-bit Linux binary which does have a checksum.  I have not tried the binary myself.

Besides the additional python2 makedepends in the AUR PKGBUILD, that PKGBUILD is identical to the PKGBUILD which I have used several times to build BitShares on my Arch Linux system, and my expected BTS balance appears intact.

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I'm looking for a bit of advice here. I usually build the wallet on Linux myself, but I've decided that it'd be easier to do upgrades if I could just update using the yaourt package manager on Arch instead of going through the tedious process of building it myself. I find I don't go in to the wallet as much as I should because I'm on a old version and can't be bothered to upgrade. I just want to be able to type yaourt -Syu and know that BitShares will get updated along with everything else in the Arch rolling release.

This is the BitShares package on the AUR:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bitshares/

What slightly concerns me is that the sha256sums has 'SKIP' in it:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bi/bitshares/PKGBUILD


I've built it and it loads up fine, just wondering whether I should push the button and restore my keys from a backup.

What do you guys think..? Safe or not safe?