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 For a pretest, start at version .90. After .99, use .990 (so that
25 5. rm configure; make bootstrap
27 6. Commit configure, README, doc/emacs/emacs.texi,
28 doc/lispref/elisp.texi, etc/AUTHORS, lisp/version.el,
29 nt/emacs.rc. Copy lisp/loaddefs.el to
30 lisp/ldefs-boot.el and commit lisp/ldefs-boot.el. For a release,
31 also commit the ChangeLog files in all directories.
33 7. make-dist --snapshot. Check the contents of the new tar with
34 admin/diff-tar-files against an older tar file. Some old pretest
35 tarballs are kept under fencepost.gnu.org:~pot/emacs-pretest/, while
36 old emacs tarballs are at <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/>.
38 If this is the first pretest of a major release, just comparing
39 with the previous release may overlook many new files. You can try
40 something like `find -f | grep -v CVS...etc' in a clean CVS tree,
41 and compare the results against the new tar contents.
43 8. xdelta delta emacs-OLD.tar.gz emacs-NEW.tar.gz emacs-OLD-NEW.xdelta
45 9. tar -zxf emacs-NEW.tar.gz; cd emacs-NEW
46 ./configure && make && make -n install
47 Use `script' or M-x compile to save the compilation log in
48 compile-NEW.log and compare it against an old one. The easiest way
49 to do that is to visit the old log in Emacs, change the version
50 number of the old Emacs to __, do the same with the new log and do
51 M-x ediff. Especially check that Info files aren't built.
53 10. cd EMACS_ROOT_DIR; cvs tag TAG
54 TAG is EMACS_PRETEST_XX_YY_ZZZ for a pretest, EMACS_XX_YY for a
57 Shortly before the release, cut the branch with the following commands:
59 cvs rtag EMACS_`NUMBER'_BASE
60 cvs rtag -b EMACS_`NUMBER'_RC -r EMACS_`NUMBER'_BASE
62 where `NUMBER' is the major version number of the release. This
63 makes it easier to see what changes have been applied to the
66 cvs diff -r EMACS_`NUMBER'_BASE -r EMACS_`NUMBER'_RC
68 or merge changes back to the trunk with "cvs update -j", if
71 After doing this, increase the version number on the trunk as per
74 11. Now you should upload the files to the GNU ftp server. In order to
75 do that, you must be registered as an Emacs maintainer and have your
76 GPG key acknowledged by the ftp people. Mail <ftp-upload@gnu.org>
77 for instructions. Once you are there, for each file FILE to be
78 released, create a detached GPG binary signature and a clearsigned
79 directive file like this:
81 echo directory: emacs/pretest > FILE.directive (for a pretest)
82 echo directory: emacs > FILE.directive (for a release)
83 gpg --clearsign FILE.directive
84 Upload by anonymous ftp to ftp://ftp-upload.gnu.org/ the files FILE,
85 FILE.sig, FILE.directive.asc.
86 For a release, place the files in the /incoming/ftp directory.
87 For a pretest, place the files in /incoming/alpha instead, so that
88 they appear on ftp://alpha.gnu.org/.
90 For a release, upload a bz2 tarfile as well; this can save a lot
93 12. After five minutes, verify that the files are visible at
94 ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/ for a pretest, at
95 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/ for a release.
97 13. For a pretest, announce it on emacs-devel and BCC the pretesters.
98 For a release, announce it on info-gnu@gnu.org,
99 info-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, and emacs-devel.
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