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diff --git a/admin/make-tarball.txt b/admin/make-tarball.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..42dd61a00d --- /dev/null +++ b/admin/make-tarball.txt @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +Instructions to create pretest or release tarballs. +-- originally written by Eli Zaretskii, amended by Francesco Potort� + +For each step, check for possible errors. + +1. cvs -q update -Pd + +2. Bootstrap to make 100% sure all elc files are up-to-date, and to + make sure that the later tagged version will bootstrap, should it be + necessary to check it out. + +3. Set the version number (M-x load-file RET admin/admin.el RET, then + M-x set-version RET). For a release, add released change log + entries (M-x add-release-logs RET). + +4. rm configure; make bootstrap + +5. Commit configure, loaddefs.el, cus-load.el, finder-inf.el, README, + emacs.texi. + +6. make-dist --snapshot. Check the contents of the new tar with + admin/diff-tar-files against an older tar file. Some old pretest + tarballs are kept under fencepost.gnu.org:~pot/emacs-pretest/. + +7. Make xdeltas: + xdelta delta emacs-OLD.tar.gz emacs-NEW.tar.gz emacs-OLD-NEW.xdelta + +8. tar -zxf emacs-NEW.tar.gz; cd NEW + Then, either using `script' or M-x compile, do + configure && make && make -n install + Save the compilation log in compile-NEW.log and compare it against + an old one. The easiest way to do that is to visit the old log in + Emacs, change the version number of the old Emacs to __, do the same + with the new log and do M-x ediff. Especially check that Info files + aren't built. + +9. `cvs tag TAG' in the toplevel Emacs dir. TAG is + EMACS_PRETEST_XX_YY_ZZZ for a pretest, don't know for a release. + +10. For pretests, make an announcement by selecting new data from the + change logs and save it into emacs-NEW.announce, don't know for a + release. To get the new data from change logs, you can use: + cvs -q diff -b -r EMACS_PRETEST_XX_YY_ZZZ $(find -name ChangeLog|sort) | + sed -n -e 's/^=\+/ /p' -e 's/^> //p' -e 's/^diff.*//p' \ + -e 's/^RCS file: .cvsroot.emacs.emacs.\(.*\),v/\1/p' + +11. rsync emacs-NEW.tar.gz emacs-OLD-NEW.xdelta compile-NEW.log \ + emacs-new.announce alpha.gnu.org:/home/ftp/gnu/emacs/pretest/ + +12. Let Richard Stallman know about the new pretest and tell him to + announce it using the announcement you prepared. |