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1 Instructions to create pretest or release tarballs. |
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2 -- originally written by Eli Zaretskii, amended by Francesco Potort́ |
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4 For each step, check for possible errors. |
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6 1. cvs -q update -Pd |
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8 2. Bootstrap to make 100% sure all elc files are up-to-date, and to |
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9 make sure that the later tagged version will bootstrap, should it be |
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10 necessary to check it out. |
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12 3. Regenerate Emacs' AUTHORS file (M-x load-file RET |
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13 lisp/emacs-lisp/authors.el RET, then M-x authors RET, then save |
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14 the *Authors* buffer). This may require fixing syntactically |
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15 incorrect ChangeLog entries beforehand. |
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17 4. Set the version number (M-x load-file RET admin/admin.el RET, then |
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18 M-x set-version RET). For a release, add released change log |
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19 entries (M-x add-release-logs RET). |
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21 5. rm configure; make bootstrap |
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23 6. Commit configure, README, AUTHORS, lisp/loaddefs.el, |
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24 lisp/cus-load.el, lisp/finder-inf.el, lisp/version.el, |
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25 man/emacs.texi. For a release, also commit the ChangeLog files in |
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26 all directories. |
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28 7. make-dist --snapshot. Check the contents of the new tar with |
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29 admin/diff-tar-files against an older tar file. Some old pretest |
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31 old emacs tarballs are at <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/>. | |
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33 8. xdelta delta emacs-OLD.tar.gz emacs-NEW.tar.gz emacs-OLD-NEW.xdelta |
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35 9. tar -zxf emacs-NEW.tar.gz; cd emacs-NEW |
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36 configure && make && make -n install |
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37 Use `script' or M-x compile to save the compilation log in |
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38 compile-NEW.log and compare it against an old one. The easiest way |
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39 to do that is to visit the old log in Emacs, change the version |
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40 number of the old Emacs to __, do the same with the new log and do |
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41 M-x ediff. Especially check that Info files aren't built. |
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43 10. cd EMACS_ROOT_DIR; cvs tag TAG |
49345 | 44 TAG is EMACS_PRETEST_XX_YY_ZZZ for a pretest, EMACS_XX_YY for a |
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47 11. admin/make-announcement OLD NEW |
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49 to make deltas with respect to NEW. Anouncements for pretests need |
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50 to be crafted by hand. Use an older announcement to start with. |
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52 12. For the moment, put the tarballs on a public site and send a GPG |
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53 signed email to <maintainers@gnu.org> with the URLs of the tarballs |
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54 and their md5sum signatures. As of 2003-10, the GNU maintainers are |
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55 working on a better procedure. For reference, here are the previous |
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56 instructions, which are no more valid after the break-in of 2003-08: |
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57 ==== |
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58 For a pretest, do: |
49345 | 59 rsync -aP emacs-NEW.tar.gz emacs-OLD-NEW.xdelta compile-NEW.log \ |
49634 | 60 emacs-NEW.announce alpha.gnu.org:/home/alpha/gnu/emacs/pretest/. |
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61 For a release, do: |
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62 rsync -aP emacs-NEW.tar.gz emacs-OLD-NEW.xdelta \ |
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63 alpha.gnu.org:/home/ftp/gnu/emacs/. |
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66 ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/ for a pretest, at |
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67 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/ for a release. |
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70 tell him to announce it using the announcement you prepared. Remind |
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71 him to set a Reply-to header to <emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org>. |
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72 For a release, Richard should prepare the announcement himself, |
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73 possibly starting from a previous announcment. |
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75 # arch-tag: c23c771f-ca26-4584-8a04-50ecf0989390 |