Hi all,
I used the CoinCashew docs to set up my staking pool (2 relay x 1 BP) about a week or so ago. Guide: How to Set Up a Cardano Stake Pool - CoinCashew
In the docs, they suggest tweaking the cabal.project.local as follows and then running a cabal build of only the cardano-cli and cardano-node.
# Update the cabal config, project settings, and reset build folder.
echo -e "package cardano-crypto-praos\n flags: -external-libsodium-vrf" > cabal.project.local
cabal build cardano-cli cardano-node
Based on a recent support article from Carlos of IOHK, his directions are slightly different.
IOHK support article
In the article, Carlos mentions
Note, that for a development build you can avoid installing the custom
libsodiumlibrary and add the following lines to the local project file
echo “package cardano-crypto-praos” >> cabal.project.local
echo “flags: -external-libsodium-vrf” >> cabal.project.local
I’m wondering if I should avoid overriding the cabal.project.local, since a staking pool node is not a development build?
He is also doing a cabal build all. I noticed that doing cabal build all will include building the tx-generator package. It does not appear that tx-generator is necessary to run the BP and relay nodes in a production setting? Based on some documentation here, tx-generator, it appears it is used to support a cardano-cli subcommand to generate-txs needed to support spinning up a cluster.
Is it safe to just run cabal build cardano-cli cardano-node and not run cabal build all.
I’d really appreciate feedback. I can’t see any issues in the logs, but maybe they don’t show up unless you produce a block. I’m not sure.
Thanks
Kurt