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Instructions to create pretest or release tarballs.
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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. Set the version number (M-x load-file RET admin/admin.el RET, then |
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13 M-x set-version RET). For a release, add released change log |
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14 entries (M-x add-release-logs RET). |
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16 4. rm configure; make bootstrap |
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18 5. Commit configure, loaddefs.el, cus-load.el, finder-inf.el, README, |
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19 emacs.texi. |
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21 6. make-dist --snapshot. Check the contents of the new tar with |
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22 admin/diff-tar-files against an older tar file. Some old pretest |
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23 tarballs are kept under fencepost.gnu.org:~pot/emacs-pretest/. |
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25 7. xdelta delta emacs-OLD.tar.gz emacs-NEW.tar.gz emacs-OLD-NEW.xdelta |
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27 8. tar -zxf emacs-NEW.tar.gz; cd emacs-NEW |
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28 configure && make && make -n install |
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29 Use `script' or M-x compile to save the compilation log in |
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30 compile-NEW.log and compare it against an old one. The easiest way |
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31 to do that is to visit the old log in Emacs, change the version |
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32 number of the old Emacs to __, do the same with the new log and do |
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33 M-x ediff. Especially check that Info files aren't built. |
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35 9. cd EMACS_ROOT_DIR; cvs tag TAG |
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36 TAG is EMACS_PRETEST_XX_YY_ZZZ for a pretest. Don't know for a release. |
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38 10. admin/make-announcement OLD NEW |
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39 This creates an announcement for pretests. Don't know for a release. |
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41 11. rsync emacs-NEW.tar.gz emacs-OLD-NEW.xdelta compile-NEW.log \ |
48670 | 42 emacs-new.announce alpha.gnu.org:/home/alpha/gnu/emacs/pretest/ |
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45 ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/. | |
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47 13. Let Richard Stallman know about the new pretest and tell him to | |
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48 announce it using the announcement you prepared. Remind him to set |
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49 a Reply-to header to <emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org>. |