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1 Instructions to create pretest or release tarballs. |
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2 -- originally written by Gerd Moellmann, amended by Francesco Potort́ |
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3 with the initial help of Eli Zaretskii |
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5 For each step, check for possible errors. |
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7 1. cvs -q update -Pd |
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9 2. Bootstrap to make 100% sure all elc files are up-to-date, and to |
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10 make sure that the later tagged version will bootstrap, should it be |
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11 necessary to check it out. |
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13 3. Regenerate Emacs' AUTHORS file (M-x load-file RET |
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14 lisp/emacs-lisp/authors.el RET, then M-x authors RET, then save |
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15 the *Authors* buffer). This may require fixing syntactically |
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16 incorrect ChangeLog entries beforehand. |
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18 4. Set the version number (M-x load-file RET admin/admin.el RET, then |
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19 M-x set-version RET). For a release, add released change log |
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20 entries (M-x add-release-logs RET). |
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22 5. rm configure; make bootstrap |
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23 |
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24 6. Commit configure, README, AUTHORS, lisp/cus-load.el, |
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25 lisp/finder-inf.el, lisp/version.el, man/emacs.texi, |
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26 lispref/elisp.texi. Copy lisp/loaddefs.el to lisp/ldefs-boot.el |
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27 and commit lisp/ldefs-boot.el. For a release, also commit the |
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28 ChangeLog files in all directories. |
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30 7. make-dist --snapshot. Check the contents of the new tar with |
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31 admin/diff-tar-files against an older tar file. Some old pretest |
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33 old emacs tarballs are at <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/>. | |
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35 8. xdelta delta emacs-OLD.tar.gz emacs-NEW.tar.gz emacs-OLD-NEW.xdelta |
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37 9. tar -zxf emacs-NEW.tar.gz; cd emacs-NEW |
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38 ./configure && make && make -n install |
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39 Use `script' or M-x compile to save the compilation log in |
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40 compile-NEW.log and compare it against an old one. The easiest way |
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41 to do that is to visit the old log in Emacs, change the version |
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42 number of the old Emacs to __, do the same with the new log and do |
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43 M-x ediff. Especially check that Info files aren't built. |
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45 10. cd EMACS_ROOT_DIR; cvs tag TAG |
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49 11. admin/make-announcement OLD NEW |
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51 to make deltas with respect to NEW. Announcements for releases need |
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52 to be crafted by hand. Use an older announcement to start with: |
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53 look in ssh://fencepost.gnu.org/~pot/emacs-tarballs/. |
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55 12. Now you should upload the files to the GNU ftp server. In order to |
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56 do that, you must be registered as an Emacs maintainer and have your |
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57 GPG key acknowledged by the ftp people. Mail <ftp-upload@gnu.org> |
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58 for instructions. Once you are there, for each file FILE to be |
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59 released, create a detached GPG binary signature and a clearsigned |
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60 directive file like this: |
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61 gpg -b FILE |
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62 echo directory: emacs/pretest > FILE.directive (for a pretest) |
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63 echo directory: emacs > FILE.directive (for a release) |
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64 gpg --clearsign FILE.directive |
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65 Upload by anonymous ftp to ftp://ftp-upload.gnu.org/incoming/ftp/ |
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66 the files FILE, FILE.sig, FILE.directive.asc |
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68 13. After five minutes, verify that the files are visible at |
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69 ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/ for a pretest, at |
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70 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/ for a release. |
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72 14. For a pretest, let Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> know about the new pretest and |
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73 tell him to announce it using the announcement you prepared. Remind |
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74 him to set a Reply-to header to <emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org>. |
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75 For a release, Richard should prepare the announcement himself, |
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76 possibly starting from a previous announcment. |
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