Adds a datadir configuration option to the linearize scripts to allow the script to use the RPC cookie instead of requiring the user to set a rpcuser and rpcpassword for the rpc server.
- The last-timestamp-encountered variable wasn’t being used properly. Rewrite code to properly allow for new blockchain files to be written when split by month.
- Properly set a blockchain file’s access and modify times.
- Add a “debug output” option to quiet certain output that might not always be desirable.
- Update the README.
Break into two steps:
* Generate hash list
* Build data file(s) from local bitcoind blocks/ directory.
This supports building one large bootstrap.dat, or multiple
smaller blocks/blkNNNNN.dat files.
