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 If needed, increment the value of the variable
26 `customize-changed-options-previous-release' in cus-edit.el to
27 refer to a newer release of Emacs. (This is probably needed only
28 when preparing a major Emacs release, or branching for it.)
30 5. rm configure; autoconf
33 6. Commit configure, README, doc/emacs/emacs.texi,
34 doc/lispref/elisp.texi, etc/AUTHORS, lisp/version.el, nt/emacs.rc,
35 and lisp/cus-edit.el (if modified). Copy lisp/loaddefs.el to
36 lisp/ldefs-boot.el and commit lisp/ldefs-boot.el. For a release,
37 also commit the ChangeLog files in all directories.
39 7. make-dist --snapshot. Check the contents of the new tar with
40 admin/diff-tar-files against an older tar file. Some old pretest
41 tarballs are kept under fencepost.gnu.org:~pot/emacs-pretest/, while
42 old emacs tarballs are at <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/>.
44 If this is the first pretest of a major release, just comparing
45 with the previous release may overlook many new files. You can try
46 something like `find -f | grep -v CVS...etc' in a clean CVS tree,
47 and compare the results against the new tar contents.
49 8. xdelta delta emacs-OLD.tar.gz emacs-NEW.tar.gz emacs-OLD-NEW.xdelta
51 9. tar -zxf emacs-NEW.tar.gz; cd emacs-NEW
52 ./configure && make && make -n install
53 Use `script' or M-x compile to save the compilation log in
54 compile-NEW.log and compare it against an old one. The easiest way
55 to do that is to visit the old log in Emacs, change the version
56 number of the old Emacs to __, do the same with the new log and do
57 M-x ediff. Especially check that Info files aren't built.
59 10. cd EMACS_ROOT_DIR; cvs tag TAG
60 TAG is EMACS_PRETEST_XX_YY_ZZZ for a pretest, EMACS_XX_YY for a
63 Shortly before the release, cut the branch with the following commands:
65 cvs rtag EMACS_`NUMBER'_BASE
66 cvs rtag -b EMACS_`NUMBER'_RC -r EMACS_`NUMBER'_BASE
68 where `NUMBER' is the major version number of the release. This
69 makes it easier to see what changes have been applied to the
72 cvs diff -r EMACS_`NUMBER'_BASE -r EMACS_`NUMBER'_RC
74 or merge changes back to the trunk with "cvs update -j", if
77 After doing this, increase the version number on the trunk as per
80 Also, open a Savannah support request asking for commits to the
81 new branch to be sent to the emacs-diffs mailing list (by default,
82 the list normally only gets commits to the trunk).
84 11. Now you should upload the files to the GNU ftp server. In order to
85 do that, you must be registered as an Emacs maintainer and have your
86 GPG key acknowledged by the ftp people. Mail <ftp-upload@gnu.org>
87 for instructions. Once you are there, for each file FILE to be
88 released, create a detached GPG binary signature and a clearsigned
89 directive file like this:
91 echo directory: emacs/pretest > FILE.directive (for a pretest)
92 echo directory: emacs > FILE.directive (for a release)
93 gpg --clearsign FILE.directive
94 Upload by anonymous ftp to ftp://ftp-upload.gnu.org/ the files FILE,
95 FILE.sig, FILE.directive.asc.
96 For a release, place the files in the /incoming/ftp directory.
97 For a pretest, place the files in /incoming/alpha instead, so that
98 they appear on ftp://alpha.gnu.org/.
100 For a release, upload a bz2 tarfile as well; this can save a lot
103 12. After five minutes, verify that the files are visible at
104 ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/ for a pretest, at
105 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/ for a release.
107 13. For a pretest, announce it on emacs-devel and BCC the pretesters.
108 For a release, announce it on info-gnu@gnu.org,
109 info-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, and emacs-devel.
112 # arch-tag: c23c771f-ca26-4584-8a04-50ecf0989390