1 Instructions to create pretest or release tarballs.
2 -- originally written by Gerd Moellmann, amended by Francesco Potortì
3 with the initial help of Eli Zaretskii
5 For each step, check for possible errors.
9 2. Bootstrap to make 100% sure all elc files are up-to-date, and to
10 make sure that the later tagged version will bootstrap, should it be
11 necessary to check it out.
13 3. Regenerate Emacs' etc/AUTHORS file (M-x load-file RET
14 lisp/emacs-lisp/authors.el RET, then M-x authors RET, then save
15 the *Authors* buffer). This may require fixing syntactically
16 incorrect ChangeLog entries beforehand.
18 4. Set the version number (M-x load-file RET admin/admin.el RET, then
19 M-x set-version RET). For a release, add released change log
20 entries (M-x add-release-logs RET).
22 5. rm configure; make bootstrap
24 6. Commit configure, README, doc/emacs/emacs.texi,
25 doc/lispref/elisp.texi, etc/AUTHORS, lisp/version.el,
26 nt/emacs.rc. Copy lisp/loaddefs.el to
27 lisp/ldefs-boot.el and commit lisp/ldefs-boot.el. For a release,
28 also commit the ChangeLog files in all directories.
30 7. make-dist --snapshot. Check the contents of the new tar with
31 admin/diff-tar-files against an older tar file. Some old pretest
32 tarballs are kept under fencepost.gnu.org:~pot/emacs-pretest/, while
33 old emacs tarballs are at <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/>.
35 8. xdelta delta emacs-OLD.tar.gz emacs-NEW.tar.gz emacs-OLD-NEW.xdelta
37 9. tar -zxf emacs-NEW.tar.gz; cd emacs-NEW
38 ./configure && make && make -n install
39 Use `script' or M-x compile to save the compilation log in
40 compile-NEW.log and compare it against an old one. The easiest way
41 to do that is to visit the old log in Emacs, change the version
42 number of the old Emacs to __, do the same with the new log and do
43 M-x ediff. Especially check that Info files aren't built.
45 10. cd EMACS_ROOT_DIR; cvs tag TAG
46 TAG is EMACS_PRETEST_XX_YY_ZZZ for a pretest, EMACS_XX_YY for a
49 Shortly before the release, cut the branch with the following commands:
51 cvs rtag EMACS_`NUMBER'_BASE
52 cvs rtag -b EMACS_`NUMBER'_RC -r EMACS_`NUMBER'_BASE
54 where `NUMBER' is the major version number of the release. This
55 makes it easier to see what changes have been applied to the
58 cvs diff -r EMACS_`NUMBER'_BASE -r EMACS_`NUMBER'_RC
60 or merge changes back to the trunk with "cvs update -j", if
63 After doing this, increase the version number on the trunk as per
66 11. Now you should upload the files to the GNU ftp server. In order to
67 do that, you must be registered as an Emacs maintainer and have your
68 GPG key acknowledged by the ftp people. Mail <ftp-upload@gnu.org>
69 for instructions. Once you are there, for each file FILE to be
70 released, create a detached GPG binary signature and a clearsigned
71 directive file like this:
73 echo directory: emacs/pretest > FILE.directive (for a pretest)
74 echo directory: emacs > FILE.directive (for a release)
75 gpg --clearsign FILE.directive
76 Upload by anonymous ftp to ftp://ftp-upload.gnu.org/ the files FILE,
77 FILE.sig, FILE.directive.asc.
78 For a release, place the files in the /incoming/ftp directory.
79 For a pretest, place the files in /incoming/alpha instead, so that
80 they appear on ftp://alpha.gnu.org/.
82 For a release, upload a bz2 tarfile as well; this can save a lot
85 12. After five minutes, verify that the files are visible at
86 ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/ for a pretest, at
87 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/ for a release.
89 13. For a pretest, announce it on emacs-devel and BCC the pretesters.
90 For a release, announce it on info-gnu@gnu.org,
91 info-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, and emacs-devel.
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