* consensus/ethash: start remote ggoroutine to handle remote mining
* consensus/ethash: expose remote miner api
* consensus/ethash: expose submitHashrate api
* miner, ethash: push empty block to sealer without waiting execution
* consensus, internal: add getHashrate API for ethash
* consensus: add three method for consensus interface
* miner: expose consensus engine running status to miner
* eth, miner: specify etherbase when miner created
* miner: commit new work when consensus engine is started
* consensus, miner: fix some logics
* all: delete useless interfaces
* consensus: polish a bit
* rpc: Make HTTP server timeout values configurable
* rpc: Remove flags for setting HTTP Timeouts, configuring via .toml is sufficient.
* rpc: Replace separate constants with a single default struct.
* rpc: Update HTTP Server Read and Write Timeouts to 30s.
* rpc: Remove redundant NewDefaultHTTPTimeouts function.
* rpc: document HTTPTimeouts.
* rpc: sanitize timeout values for library use
* build: add support for different package and binary names
* build: bump up copyright date
* build: change default PackageName to empty string
* build, internal, swarm: enhance build/release process
* build: hack ethereum-swarm as a "depends" in deb package
* build/ci: remove redundant variables
* build, cmd, mobile, params, swarm: remove VERSION file; rename Version to VersionMeta;
* internal: remove VERSION() method which reads VERSION file
* build: fix VersionFilePath to Version
* Makefile: remove clean_go_build_cache.sh until it works
* Makefile: revert removal of clean_go_build_cache.sh
* swarm/storage/mru: Add embedded publickey and remove ENS dep
This commit breaks swarm, swarm/api...
but tests in swarm/storage/mru pass
* swarm: Refactor swarm, swarm/api to mru changes, make tests pass
* swarm/storage/mru: Remove self from recv, remove test ens vldtr
* swarm/storage/mru: Remove redundant test, expose ResourceHash mthd
* swarm/storage/mru: Make HeaderGetter mandatory + godoc fixes
* swarm/storage: Remove validator prefix for metadata chunk
* swarm/storage/mru: Use Address instead of PublicKey
* swarm/storage/mru: Change index from name to metadata chunk addr
* swarm/storage/mru: Refactor swarm/api/... to MRU index changes
* swarm/storage/mru: Refactor cleanup
* swarm/storage/mru: Rebase cleanup
* swarm: Use constructor for GenericSigner MRU in swarm.go
* swarm/storage: Change to BMTHash for MRU hashing
* swarm/storage: Reduce loglevel on chunk validator logs
* swarm/storage/mru: Delint
* swarm: MRU Rebase cleanup
* swarm/storage/mru: client-side mru signatures
Rebase to PR #668 and fix all conflicts
* swarm/storage/mru: refactor and documentation
* swarm/resource/mru: error-checking tests for parseUpdate/newUpdateChunk
* swarm/storage/mru: Added resourcemetadata tests
* swarm/storage/mru: Added tests for UpdateRequest
* swarm/storage/mru: more test coverage for UpdateRequest and comments
* swarm/storage/mru: Avoid fake chunks in parseUpdate()
* swarm/storage/mru: Documented resource.go extensively
moved some functions where they make most sense
* swarm/storage/mru: increase test coverage for UpdateRequest and
variable name changes throughout to increase consistency
* swarm/storage/mru: moved default timestamp to NewCreateRequest-
* swarm/storage/mru: lookup refactor
* swarm/storage/mru: added comments and renamed raw flag to rawmru
* swarm/storage/mru: fix receiver typo
* swarm/storage/mru: refactored update chunk new/create
* swarm/storage/mru: refactored signature digest to avoid malleability
* swarm/storage/mru: optimize update data serialization
* swarm/storage/mru: refactor and cleanup
* swarm/storage/mru: add timestamp struct and serialization
* swarm/storage/mru: fix lint error and mark some old code for deletion
* swarm/storage/mru: remove unnecessary variable
* swarm/storage/mru: Added more comments throughout
* swarm/storage/mru: Refactored metadata chunk layout + extensive error...
* swarm/storage/mru: refactor cli parser
Changed resource info output to JSON
* swarm/storage/mru: refactor serialization for extensibility
refactored error messages to NewErrorf
* swarm/storage/mru: Moved Signature to resource_sign.
Check Sign errors in server tests
* swarm/storage/mru: Remove isSafeName() checks
* swarm/storage/mru: scrubbed off all references to "block" for time
* swarm/storage/mru: removed superfluous isSynced() call.
* swarm/storage/mru: remove isMultihash() and ToSafeName functions
* swarm/storage/mru: various fixes and comments
* swarm/storage/mru: decoupled cli for independent create/update
* Made resource name optional
* Removed unused LookupPrevious
* swarm/storage/mru: Decoupled resource create / update & refactor
* swarm/storage/mru: Fixed some comments as per issues raised in PR #743
* swarm/storage/mru: Cosmetic changes as per #743 comments
* swarm/storage/mru: refct request encoder/decoder > marshal/unmarshal
* swarm/storage/mru: Cosmetic changes as per review in #748
* swarm/storage/mru: removed timestamp proof placeholder
* swarm/storage/mru: cosmetic/doc/fixes changes as per comments in #704
* swarm/storage/mru: removed unnecessary check in Handler.update
* swarm/storage/mru: Implemented Marshaler/Unmarshaler iface in Request
* swarm/storage/mru: Fixed linter error
* swarm/storage/mru: removed redundant address in signature digest
* swarm/storage/mru: fixed bug: LookupLatestVersionInPeriod not working
* swarm/storage/mru: Unfold Request creation API for create or update+create
set common time source for mru package
* swarm/api/http: fix HandleGetResource error variable shadowed
when requesting a resource that does not exist
* swarm/storage/mru: Add simple check to detect duplicate updates
* swarm/storage/mru: moved Multihash() to the right place.
* cmd/swarm: remove unneeded clientaccountmanager.go
* swarm/storage/mru: Changed some comments as per reviews in #784
* swarm/storage/mru: Made SignedResourceUpdate.GetDigest() public
* swarm/storage/mru: cosmetic changes as per comments in #784
* cmd/swarm: Inverted --multihash flag default
* swarm/storage/mru: removed Verify from SignedResourceUpdate.fromChunk
* swarm/storage/mru: Moved validation code out of serializer
Cosmetic / comment changes
* swarm/storage/mru: Added unit tests for UpdateLookup
* swarm/storage/mru: Increased coverage of metadata serialization
* swarm/storage/mru: Increased test coverage of updateHeader serializers
* swarm/storage/mru: Add resourceUpdate serializer test
* cmd/swarm: minor cli flag text adjustments
* swarm/api/http: sticky footer for swarm landing page using flex
* swarm/api/http: sticky footer for error pages and fix for multiple choices
* cmd/swarm, swarm/storage, swarm: fix mingw on windows test issues
* cmd/swarm: update description of swarm cmd
* swarm: added network ID test
* cmd/swarm: support for smoke tests on the production swarm cluster
* cmd/swarm/swarm-smoke: simplify cluster logic as per suggestion
* swarm: propagate ctx to internal apis (#754)
* swarm/metrics: collect disk measurements
* swarm/bmt: fix io.Writer interface
* Write now tolerates arbitrary variable buffers
* added variable buffer tests
* Write loop and finalise optimisation
* refactor / rename
* add tests for empty input
* swarm/pss: (UPDATE) Generic notifications package (#744)
swarm/pss: Generic package for creating pss notification svcs
* swarm: Adding context to more functions
* swarm/api: change colour of landing page in templates
* swarm/api: change landing page to react to enter keypress
Prior to this change, when geth was started with `geth -dev -rpc`,
it would report a network id of `1` in response to the `net_version` RPC
request. But the actual network id it used to verify transactions
was `1337`.
This change causes geth instead respond with `1337` to the `net_version`
RPC when geth is started with `geth -dev -rpc`.
ToECDSAPub was unsafe because it returned a non-nil key with nil X, Y in
case of invalid input. This change replaces ToECDSAPub with
UnmarshalPubkey across the codebase.
Allow the --abi flag to be given - to indicate that it should read the
ABI information from standard input. It expects to read the solc output
with the --combined-json flag providing bin, abi, userdoc, devdoc, and
metadata, and works very similarly to the internal invocation of solc,
except it allows external invocation of solc.
This facilitates integration with more complex solc invocations, such
as invocations that require path remapping or --allow-paths tweaks.
Simple usage example:
solc --combined-json bin,abi,userdoc,devdoc,metadata *.sol | abigen --abi -
* whisper/mailserver: pass init error to the caller
* whisper/mailserver: add returns to fmt.Errorf
* whisper/mailserver: check err in mailserver init test
* common: delete StringToAddress, StringToHash
These functions are confusing because they don't parse hex, but use the
bytes of the string. This change removes them, replacing all uses of
StringToAddress(s) by BytesToAddress([]byte(s)).
* eth/filters: remove incorrect use of common.BytesToAddress
The diagnostic tool was saving the unencrypted version of the messages, which is an obvious
security flaw. As of this commit:
* encrypted messages saved instead of plain text.
* all messages are stored, even that created by the user of wnode.
This is in preparation for the switch to libp2p: the ID generated
will be from a private key created with the help of libp2p's crypto
library, while Whisper will still use Go's default crypto libraries
for encrypting its messages. This change removes a conflict.
It shouldn't have any impact as the person receiving emails is
the user, not the node.
* cmd,node,rpc: add allowedHosts to prevent dns rebinding attacks
* p2p,node: Fix bug with dumpconfig introduced in r54aeb8e4c0bb9f0e7a6c67258af67df3b266af3d
* rpc: add wildcard support for rpcallowedhosts + go fmt
* cmd/geth, cmd/utils, node, rpc: ignore direct ip(v4/6) addresses in rpc virtual hostnames check
* http, rpc, utils: make vhosts into map, address review concerns
* node: change log messages to use geth standard (not sprintf)
* rpc: fix spelling
* p2p: add DialRatio for configuration of inbound vs. dialed connections
* p2p: add connection flags to PeerInfo
* p2p/netutil: add SameNet, DistinctNetSet
* p2p/discover: improve revalidation and seeding
This changes node revalidation to be periodic instead of on-demand. This
should prevent issues where dead nodes get stuck in closer buckets
because no other node will ever come along to replace them.
Every 5 seconds (on average), the last node in a random bucket is
checked and moved to the front of the bucket if it is still responding.
If revalidation fails, the last node is replaced by an entry of the
'replacement list' containing recently-seen nodes.
Most close buckets are removed because it's very unlikely we'll ever
encounter a node that would fall into any of those buckets.
Table seeding is also improved: we now require a few minutes of table
membership before considering a node as a potential seed node. This
should make it less likely to store short-lived nodes as potential
seeds.
* p2p/discover: fix nits in UDP transport
We would skip sending neighbors replies if there were fewer than
maxNeighbors results and CheckRelayIP returned an error for the last
one. While here, also resolve a TODO about pong reply tokens.
The bulk of the issue was to adapt to the new requirement
that a v6 filter has to either contain a symmertric key or
an asymmetric one.
This commits revert one of the fixes that I made to remove
a linter warning: unexporting NewSentMessage. This is not
really a problem as I have a cleanup in the pipe that will
solve this issue.
* whisper: fixes warnings from the code linter
* whisper: more non-API-breaking changes
The remaining lint errors are because of auto-generated
files and one is because an exported function has a non-
exported return type. Changing this would break the API,
and will be part of another commit for easier reversal.
* whisper: un-export NewSentMessage to please the linter
This is an API change, which is why it's in its own commit.
This change was initiated after the linter complained that
the returned type wasn't exported. I chose to un-export
the function instead of exporting the type, because that
type is an implementation detail that I would like to
change in the near future to make the code more
readable and with an increased coverage.
* whisper: update gencodec output after upgrading it to new lint standards
This commit affects p2p/discv5 "topic discovery" by running it on
the same UDP port where the old discovery works. This is realized
by giving an "unhandled" packet channel to the old v4 discovery
packet handler where all invalid packets are sent. These packets
are then processed by v5. v5 packets are always invalid when
interpreted by v4 and vice versa. This is ensured by adding one
to the first byte of the packet hash in v5 packets.
DiscoveryV5Bootnodes is also changed to point to new bootnodes
that are implementing the changed packet format with modified
hash. Existing and new v5 bootnodes are both running on different
ports ATM.
This commit:
- Adds a --msgfile option to read the message to sign from a file
instead of command line argument.
- Adds a unit test for signing subcommands.
- Removes some weird whitespace in the code.
* dashboard: footer, deep state update
* dashboard: resolve asset path
* dashboard: remove bundle.js
* dashboard: prevent state update on every reconnection
* dashboard: fix linter issue
* dashboard, cmd: minor UI fix, include commit hash
* remove geth binary
* dashboard: gitCommit renamed to commit
* dashboard: move the geth version to the right, make commit optional
* dashboard: commit limited to 7 characters
* dashboard: limit commit length on client side
* dashboard: run go generate
* common/fdlimit: Move fdlimit files to separate package
When go-ethereum is used as a library the calling program need to set
the FD limit.
This commit extract fdlimit files to a separate package so it can be
used outside of go-ethereum.
* common/fdlimit: Remove FdLimit from functions signature
* common/fdlimit: Rename fdlimit functions
* core/types, core/vm, eth, tests: regenerate gencodec files
* Makefile: update devtools target
Install protoc-gen-go and print reminders about npm, solc and protoc.
Also switch to github.com/kevinburke/go-bindata because it's more
maintained.
* contracts/ens: update contracts and regenerate with solidity v0.4.19
The newer upstream version of the FIFSRegistrar contract doesn't set the
resolver anymore. The resolver is now deployed separately.
* contracts/release: regenerate with solidity v0.4.19
* contracts/chequebook: fix fallback and regenerate with solidity v0.4.19
The contract didn't have a fallback function, payments would be rejected
when compiled with newer solidity. References to 'mortal' and 'owned'
use the local file system so we can compile without network access.
* p2p/discv5: regenerate with recent stringer
* cmd/faucet: regenerate
* dashboard: regenerate
* eth/tracers: regenerate
* internal/jsre/deps: regenerate
* dashboard: avoid sed -i because it's not portable
* accounts/usbwallet/internal/trezor: fix go generate warnings
* cmd/utils: Add check on hard limit, skip test if below target
* cmd/utils: Cross platform compatible fd limit test
* cmd/utils: Remove syscall.Rlimit in test
* cmd/utils: comment fd utility method
ethkey is a new tool that serves as a command line interface to
the basic key management functionalities of geth. It currently
supports:
- generating keyfiles
- inspecting keyfiles (print public and private key)
- signing messages
- verifying signed messages
Specifying ENS API CLI flag, env variable or configuration
field is required for ENS resolving. Backward compatibility is
preserved with --ens-api="" CLI flag value.
Merge with changes that implement config file PR #15548.
Field *EnsApi string* in swarm/api.Config is replaced with
*EnsAPIs []string*.
A new field *EnsDisabled bool* is added to swarm/api.Config for
easy way to disable ENS resolving with config file.
Signature of function swarm.NewSwarm is changed and simplified.
This commit adds a TOML configuration option to swarm. It reuses
the TOML configuration structure used in geth with swarm
customized items.
The commit:
* Adds a "dumpconfig" command to the swarm executable which
allows printing the (default) configuration to stdout, which
then can be redirected to a file in order to customize it.
* Adds a "--config <file>" option to the swarm executable which will
allow to load a configuration file in TOML format from the
specified location in order to initialize the Swarm node The
override priorities are like follows: environment variables
override command line arguments override config file override
default config.
Allow multiple --ens-api flags to be specified with value format
[tld:][contract-addr@]url.
Backward compatibility with only one --ens-api flag and --ens-addr
flag is preserved and conflict cases are handled:
- multiple --ens-api with --ens-addr returns an error
- single --ens-api with contract address and --ens-addr with
different contract address returns an error
Previously implemented --ens-endpoint is removed. Its functionality
is replaced with multiple --ens-api flags.
* cmd, consensus, eth: split ethash related config to it own
* eth, consensus: minor polish
* eth, consenus, console: compress pow testing config field to single one
* consensus, eth: document pow mode
* cmd, consensus, core, miner: instatx clique for --dev
* cmd, consensus, clique: support configurable --dev block times
* cmd, core: allow --dev to use persistent storage too
This commit introduces a network simulation framework which
can be used to run simulated networks of devp2p nodes. The
intention is to use this for testing protocols, performing
benchmarks and visualising emergent network behaviour.
* ethdb: add Putter interface and Has method
* ethdb: improve docs and add IdealBatchSize
* ethdb: remove memory batch lock
Batches are not safe for concurrent use.
* core: use ethdb.Putter for Write* functions
This covers the easy cases.
* core/state: simplify StateSync
* trie: optimize local node check
* ethdb: add ValueSize to Batch
* core: optimize HasHeader check
This avoids one random database read get the block number. For many uses
of HasHeader, the expectation is that it's actually there. Using Has
avoids a load + decode of the value.
* core: write fast sync block data in batches
Collect writes into batches up to the ideal size instead of issuing many
small, concurrent writes.
* eth/downloader: commit larger state batches
Collect nodes into a batch up to the ideal size instead of committing
whenever a node is received.
* core: optimize HasBlock check
This avoids a random database read to get the number.
* core: use numberCache in HasHeader
numberCache has higher capacity, increasing the odds of finding the
header without a database lookup.
* core: write imported block data using a batch
Restore batch writes of state and add blocks, tx entries, receipts to
the same batch. The change also simplifies the miner.
This commit also removes posting of logs when a forked block is imported.
* core: fix DB write error handling
* ethdb: use RLock for Has
* core: fix HasBlock comment
* cmd/evm: adds ability to run individual state test file
* cmd/evm: Fix statetest runner to be more json friendly
* cmd/evm, tests: minor polishes, dump state on fail
Previously, NewManifest was asynchronous so subsequent code which tried
to use the returned manifest could error as the manifest was not yet
persisted.
This patch updates the Address type in common/types.go so that the Hex
function provides an EIP55-compliant output string. The implementation is pretty lightweight;
on my laptop the benchmark gives 1100ns/op, with the majority of that value due to the Keccak hash.
* core: reduce txpool event loop goroutines and sync structs
* cmd, core, eth: journal local transactions to disk
* core: journal replacement pending transactions too
* core: separate transaction journal from pool
The previous attempt to use --ethapi as a fallback if --ens-api is not
set does not work because --ens-api has a default value, and also
setting --ens-api to "" is the suggested way to disable ENS lookups.
Signed-off-by: Lewis Marshall <lewis@lmars.net>
With this commit, core/state's access to the underlying key/value database is
mediated through an interface. Database errors are tracked in StateDB and
returned by CommitTo or the new Error method.
Motivation for this change: We can remove the light client's duplicated copy of
core/state. The light client now supports node iteration, so tracing and storage
enumeration can work with the light client (not implemented in this commit).
The error returned by client.Upload was previously being ignored due to becoming
out of scope outside the if statement. This has been fixed by instead defining a
function which returns the hash and error (rather than trying to set the hash in
each branch of the if statement).
Currently http cors and websocket origins are a comma separated string in the
config object. These are replaced with string arrays that are more expressive in
case of a config file.
* p2p/discover, p2p/discv5: add marshaling methods to Node
* p2p/netutil: make Netlist decodable from TOML
* common/math: encode nil HexOrDecimal256 as 0x0
* cmd/geth: add --config file flag
* cmd/geth: add missing license header
* eth: prettify Config again, fix tests
* eth: use gasprice.Config instead of duplicating its fields
* eth/gasprice: hide nil default from dumpconfig output
* cmd/geth: hide genesis block in dumpconfig output
* node: make tests compile
* console: fix tests
* cmd/geth: make TOML keys look exactly like Go struct fields
* p2p: use discovery by default
This makes the zero Config slightly more useful. It also fixes package
node tests because Node detects reuse of the datadir through the
NodeDatabase.
* cmd/geth: make ethstats URL settable through config file
* cmd/faucet: fix configuration
* cmd/geth: dedup attach tests
* eth: add comment for DefaultConfig
* eth: pass downloader.SyncMode in Config
This removes the FastSync, LightSync flags in favour of a more
general SyncMode flag.
* cmd/utils: remove jitvm flags
* cmd/utils: make mutually exclusive flag error prettier
It now reads:
Fatal: flags --dev, --testnet can't be used at the same time
* p2p: fix typo
* node: add DefaultConfig, use it for geth
* mobile: add missing NoDiscovery option
* cmd/utils: drop MakeNode
This exposed a couple of places that needed to be updated to use
node.DefaultConfig.
* node: fix typo
* eth: make fast sync the default mode
* cmd/utils: remove IPCApiFlag (unused)
* node: remove default IPC path
Set it in the frontends instead.
* cmd/geth: add --syncmode
* cmd/utils: make --ipcdisable and --ipcpath mutually exclusive
* cmd/utils: don't enable WS, HTTP when setting addr
* cmd/utils: fix --identity
This PR deprecates the file related RPC calls in favour of an improved HTTP API.
The main aim is to expose a simple to use API which can be consumed by thin
clients (e.g. curl and HTML forms) without the need for complex logic (e.g.
manipulating prefix trie manifests).
This adds a swarm ls command which lists files and directories stored in a
manifest. Rather than listing all files, it uses "directory prefixes" in case there are a
lot of files in a manifest but you just want to traverse it.
This also includes some refactoring to the tests and the introduction of a
swarm/api/client package to make things easier to test.
This commit adds pluggable consensus engines to go-ethereum. In short, it
introduces a generic consensus interface, and refactors the entire codebase to
use this interface.
This commit solves several issues concerning the genesis block:
* Genesis/ChainConfig loading was handled by cmd/geth code. This left
library users in the cold. They could specify a JSON-encoded
string and overwrite the config, but didn't get any of the additional
checks performed by geth.
* Decoding and writing of genesis JSON was conflated in
WriteGenesisBlock. This made it a lot harder to embed the genesis
block into the forthcoming config file loader. This commit changes
things so there is a single Genesis type that represents genesis
blocks. All uses of Write*Genesis* are changed to use the new type
instead.
* If the chain config supplied by the user was incompatible with the
current chain (i.e. the chain had already advanced beyond a scheduled
fork), it got overwritten. This is not an issue in practice because
previous forks have always had the highest total difficulty. It might
matter in the future though. The new code reverts the local chain to
the point of the fork when upgrading configuration.
The change to genesis block data removes compression library
dependencies from package core.
* accounts, cmd, eth, ethdb: port logs over to new system
* ethdb: drop concept of cache distribution between dbs
* eth: fix some log nitpicks to make them nicer
Added the ability to directly compile and run ethereum assembly using
the evm utility: `evm run <file>`. This is equivalant to `evm compile
<file> | evm run`.
* Improved the standard evm tracer output and renamed it to WriteTrace
which now takes an io.Writer to write the logs to.
* Added WriteLogs which writes logs to the given writer in a readable
format.
* evm utility now also prints logs generated during the execution.
* common: remove CurrencyToString
Move denomination values to params instead.
* common: delete dead code
* common: move big integer operations to common/math
This commit consolidates all big integer operations into common/math and
adds tests and documentation.
There should be no change in semantics for BigPow, BigMin, BigMax, S256,
U256, Exp and their behaviour is now locked in by tests.
The BigD, BytesToBig and Bytes2Big functions don't provide additional
value, all uses are replaced by new(big.Int).SetBytes().
BigToBytes is now called PaddedBigBytes, its minimum output size
parameter is now specified as the number of bytes instead of bits. The
single use of this function is in the EVM's MSTORE instruction.
Big and String2Big are replaced by ParseBig, which is slightly stricter.
It previously accepted leading zeros for hexadecimal inputs but treated
decimal inputs as octal if a leading zero digit was present.
ParseUint64 is used in places where String2Big was used to decode a
uint64.
The new functions MustParseBig and MustParseUint64 are now used in many
places where parsing errors were previously ignored.
* common: delete unused big integer variables
* accounts/abi: replace uses of BytesToBig with use of encoding/binary
* common: remove BytesToBig
* common: remove Bytes2Big
* common: remove BigTrue
* cmd/utils: add BigFlag and use it for error-checked integer flags
While here, remove environment variable processing for DirectoryFlag
because we don't use it.
* core: add missing error checks in genesis block parser
* common: remove String2Big
* cmd/evm: use utils.BigFlag
* common/math: check for 256 bit overflow in ParseBig
This is supposed to prevent silent overflow/truncation of values in the
genesis block JSON. Without this check, a genesis block that set a
balance larger than 256 bits would lead to weird behaviour in the VM.
* cmd/utils: fixup import
This command was meant as a hackish way to upgrade our chain database way back
when nobody cared for live updates and the size of the database along with its
import times was small. With the current database weighing hundreds of GBs and
processing times of many days, this command is just ludicrous.
All the state and block tests are ran as part of our CU builds internally, as
well as have been added to hive black-box tests. As such, there is no reason for
maintaining an extra standalone tool.
Only ethereum/rpc-tests used this command, which hasn't been maintained for over
a year now, a lot of tests failing. What's left of it was moved underneath hive,
which can run the entire test against a black-box geth without special commands.
Also a new RPC test suite is being added which is also based on black box tests,
not needing special commands any more.
