Better documentation of default_balance_ether option needed
See original GitHub issueExpected Behavior
It should set account balance to new default_balance_ether option.
Current Behavior
It sets account balance to 100 ETH no matter the default_balance_ether option.
Possible Solution
Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)
- Install with npm i -g @aragon/aragen
- Ran aragen start --default_balance_ether <balance>
- Check on a provider that you still have default 100 ETH balance
Context
I would like to initialize the account with a configurable amount of ETH.Your Environment
- Version used: 2.7.0
- Environment name and version (e.g. PHP 5.4 on nginx 1.9.1): node LTS
- Server type and version:
- Operating System and version: MacOS 10.15 Beta (19A526h)
- Link to your project: here
Issue Analytics
- State:
- Created 4 years ago
- Comments:9 (5 by maintainers)
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Reopening this issue so we can clarify our documentation around how the flags interoperate.
Hey @davidmurdoch I think I found what was going on. In our case we have a chain snapshot and the same mnemonic was used to generate that snapshot so the accounts were already allocated default amount of ETH when the snapshot was created. I wonder in case of passing a
db_pathhow much of the configurations are able to be modify, for example including a new mnemonic with 200ETH as default is something possible?Thanks