From e7c6c2f6689e66e58733ef9070957068109bd572 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jared Tobin Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:16:35 -0230 Subject: [PATCH] contributing: update kernel & pills section Removes information about our deprecated pill caching framework. --- CONTRIBUTING.md | 21 ++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 8b2c894af..e0cf2c1e5 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -184,23 +184,14 @@ You can boot a new ship from your local pill with `-B`: $ urbit -F zod -B path/to/urbit.pill my-fake-zod ``` -Pills are cached at `https://bootstrap.urbit.org` and are indexed by the first -10 characters of the `git` SHA1 of the relevant commit, i.e. as -`git-[sha1].pill`. The continuous integration build uploads these pills for -any successful build of a commit or pull request that affects the -`pkg/arvo/sys/` directory. - -You can boot from one of these pills by passing the path to an Arvo working -copy with `-A` (and `-s` for *search*): - -``` -$ git clone https://github.com/urbit/urbit -$ urbit -F zod -sA urbit/pkg/arvo -s my-fake-zod -``` +Release pills, i.e. those corresponding to vere releases, are cached at +`https://bootstrap.urbit.org` and are indexed by the vere version number, e.g. +`urbit-0.8.2.pill`. Pills are also cached in version control via [git LFS][git-lfs]. You can find -the latest solid pill (as well as the latest so-called *brass* and *ivory* -pills) in the `bin/` directory at the repository root: +the latest solid pill, as well as the latest so-called *brass* and *ivory* +pills, in the `bin/` directory at the repository root. Note that you'll need +to initialise git LFS in order to check these pills out: ``` $ git lfs init