1 Here are most of the steps we (maintainers) follow when making a release.
3 * start from a clean, up-to-date git directory.
5 git checkout master; git pull
7 * Run ./configure && make maintainer-clean
9 * Ensure that the desired versions of autoconf, automake, bison, etc.
10 are in your PATH. See HACKING for the complete list.
12 * Ensure that you're on "master" with no uncommitted diffs.
13 This should produce no output: git checkout master; git diff
15 * Make sure your local gnulib directory is up to date.
17 * Run bootstrap, (assuming your local copy of gnulib is in /gnulib):
18 ./bootstrap --gnulib-srcdir=/gnulib
20 FIXME: enable excluded programs like arch? to get their manual pages?
22 * Pre-release testing:
23 On at least one SELinux-enabled (enforcing) and one non-SELinux system,
24 run all tests, both root-only and regular.
25 Run *all* non-root tests, including expensive and very expensive ones i.e.,
26 run this: make -j1 check RUN_VERY_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes
28 Run the root-only tests:
29 sudo env PATH="$PATH" NON_ROOT_USERNAME=$USER make -k check-root
31 * Run "make distcheck"
33 * Manually set the date, version number, and [stable/alpha/beta] on
34 line 3 of NEWS, then do e.g.,:
37 git commit -F <(printf 'version '$v'\n\n* NEWS: Record release date.\n') -a
38 git tag -s -m "coreutils $v" v$v HEAD
40 * Run the following to create release tarballs. Your choice selects the
41 corresponding upload-to destination in the emitted gnupload command.
42 The different destinations are specified in cfg.mk. See the definitions
43 of gnu_ftp_host-{alpha,beta,major}.
45 # "TYPE" must be major, beta or alpha
48 * Test the tarball. copy it to a few odd-ball systems and ensure that
49 it builds and passes all tests.
51 * While that's happening, write the release announcement that you will
54 Once all the builds and tests have passed,
56 * Run the gnupload command that was suggested by your "make major" run above.
58 * Wait a few minutes (maybe up to 30?) and then use the release URLs to
59 download all tarball/signature pairs and use gpg --verify to ensure
60 that they're all valid.
63 git push origin tag v<JUST_RELEASED_VERSION_NUMBER>
65 * Send the gpg-signed announcement mail, e.g.,
66 To: info-gnu@gnu.org, coreutils-announce@gnu.org
67 Cc: coordinator@translationproject.org, bug-coreutils@gnu.org
68 Subject: coreutils-7.1 released [stable]
70 * Approve the announcement here:
71 http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/admindb/coreutils-announce
73 * Announce it on Savannah, too:
75 https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/coreutils/
76 click on the "submit news", then write something like the following:
78 Subject: coreutils-7.2 released [stable]
79 The announcement is here:
80 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.announce/49
82 Then go here to approve it:
83 https://savannah.gnu.org/news/approve.php?group=coreutils
85 * For non-alpha releases, update the on-line manual at
87 http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/
89 Run `make web-manual', then copy the contents of doc/manual
90 into a CVS checkout of the coreutils manual repository.
91 Also edit coreutils.html (FIXME? why?) before doing a CVS commit.
94 cvs -d:ext:$USER@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/web/coreutils co coreutils
96 Be sure to "cvs add -ko" any files that "cvs status" marks with "?".
97 That is necessary whenever a new texinfo node is added. Each becomes
98 a new file in html_node that must then be "cvs add"ed.