1 Instructions to create pretest or release tarballs.
2 -- originally written by Eli Zaretskii, amended by Francesco Potortì
4 For each step, check for possible errors.
8 2. Bootstrap to make 100% sure all elc files are up-to-date, and to
9 make sure that the later tagged version will bootstrap, should it be
10 necessary to check it out.
12 3. Regenerate Emacs' AUTHORS file (M-x load-file RET
13 lisp/emacs-lisp/authors.el RET, then M-x authors RET, then save
14 the *Authors* buffer). This may require fixing syntactically
15 incorrect ChangeLog entries beforehand.
17 4. Set the version number (M-x load-file RET admin/admin.el RET, then
18 M-x set-version RET). For a release, add released change log
19 entries (M-x add-release-logs RET).
21 5. rm configure; make bootstrap
23 6. Commit configure, README, AUTHORS, lisp/loaddefs.el,
24 lisp/cus-load.el, lisp/finder-inf.el, lisp/version.el,
25 man/emacs.texi. For a release, also commit the ChangeLog files in
28 7. make-dist --snapshot. Check the contents of the new tar with
29 admin/diff-tar-files against an older tar file. Some old pretest
30 tarballs are kept under fencepost.gnu.org:~pot/emacs-pretest/, while
31 old emacs tarballs are at <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/>.
33 8. xdelta delta emacs-OLD.tar.gz emacs-NEW.tar.gz emacs-OLD-NEW.xdelta
35 9. tar -zxf emacs-NEW.tar.gz; cd emacs-NEW
36 configure && make && make -n install
37 Use `script' or M-x compile to save the compilation log in
38 compile-NEW.log and compare it against an old one. The easiest way
39 to do that is to visit the old log in Emacs, change the version
40 number of the old Emacs to __, do the same with the new log and do
41 M-x ediff. Especially check that Info files aren't built.
43 10. cd EMACS_ROOT_DIR; cvs tag TAG
44 TAG is EMACS_PRETEST_XX_YY_ZZZ for a pretest, EMACS_XX_YY for a
47 11. admin/make-announcement OLD NEW
48 This creates an announcement for pretests. OLD is the version used
49 to make deltas with respect to NEW. Anouncements for pretests need
50 to be crafted by hand. Use an older announcement to start with.
52 12. For the moment, put the tarballs on a public site and send a GPG
53 signed email to <maintainers@gnu.org> with the URLs of the tarballs
54 and their md5sum signatures. As of 2003-10, the GNU maintainers are
55 working on a better procedure. For reference, here are the previous
56 instructions, which are no more valid after the break-in of 2003-08:
59 rsync -aP emacs-NEW.tar.gz emacs-OLD-NEW.xdelta compile-NEW.log \
60 emacs-NEW.announce alpha.gnu.org:/home/alpha/gnu/emacs/pretest/.
62 rsync -aP emacs-NEW.tar.gz emacs-OLD-NEW.xdelta \
63 alpha.gnu.org:/home/ftp/gnu/emacs/.
65 13. Verify that the files are visible at
66 ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/ for a pretest, at
67 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/ for a release.
69 14. For a pretest, let Richard Stallman know about the new pretest and
70 tell him to announce it using the announcement you prepared. Remind
71 him to set a Reply-to header to <emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org>.
72 For a release, Richard should prepare the announcement himself,
73 possibly starting from a previous announcment.
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