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.
7 1. `bzr update' (for a bound branch), or `bzr pull'.
8 bzr status # check for locally modified files
10 2. Bootstrap to make 100% sure all elc files are up-to-date, and to
11 make sure that the later tagged version will bootstrap, should it be
12 necessary to check it out.
14 3. Regenerate Emacs' etc/AUTHORS file (M-x load-file RET
15 lisp/emacs-lisp/authors.el RET, then M-x authors RET, then save
16 the *Authors* buffer). This may require fixing syntactically
17 incorrect ChangeLog entries beforehand.
19 4. Set the version number (M-x load-file RET admin/admin.el RET, then
20 M-x set-version RET). For a release, add released change log
21 entries (M-x add-release-logs RET).
23 For a pretest, start at version .90. After .99, use .990 (so that
26 If needed, increment the value of the variable
27 `customize-changed-options-previous-release' in cus-edit.el to
28 refer to a newer release of Emacs. (This is probably needed only
29 when preparing a major Emacs release, or branching for it.)
31 5. Edit configure.in so that maintainer-mode is off by default.
32 (FIXME - need to find a better way of dealing with this.
33 Or maybe it's fine and indeed correct to leave it on?
34 See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-03/msg00859.html
37 autoreconf -i -I m4 --force
40 6. Commit etc/AUTHORS, all the files changed by M-x set-version, and
41 lisp/cus-edit.el (if modified).
42 Copy lisp/loaddefs.el to lisp/ldefs-boot.el and commit lisp/ldefs-boot.el.
43 For a release, also commit the ChangeLog files in all directories.
45 7. make-dist --snapshot. Check the contents of the new tar with
46 admin/diff-tar-files against an older tar file. Some old pretest
47 tarballs may be found at <ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest>;
48 old release tarballs are at <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/>.
50 If this is the first pretest of a major release, just comparing
51 with the previous release may overlook many new files. You can try
52 something like `find . | sort' in a clean bzr tree, and compare the
53 results against the new tar contents.
55 8. xdelta delta emacs-OLD.tar.gz emacs-NEW.tar.gz emacs-OLD-NEW.xdelta
57 9. tar -zxf emacs-NEW.tar.gz; cd emacs-NEW
58 ./configure && make && make -n install
59 Use `script' or M-x compile to save the compilation log in
60 compile-NEW.log and compare it against an old one. The easiest way
61 to do that is to visit the old log in Emacs, change the version
62 number of the old Emacs to __, do the same with the new log and do
63 M-x ediff. Especially check that Info files aren't built.
65 10. cd EMACS_ROOT_DIR; bzr tag TAG
66 TAG is EMACS_PRETEST_XX_YY_ZZZ for a pretest, EMACS_XX_YY for a
69 Shortly before the release, cut the version branch also, and open
70 a Savannah support request asking for commits to the new branch to
71 be sent to the emacs-diffs mailing list (by default, the list
72 normally only gets commits to the trunk).
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>
79 You can use the gnupload script to upload each FILE, like this:
80 gnupload --to alpha.gnu.org:emacs/pretest FILE (for a pretest)
81 gnupload --to ftp.gnu.org:emacs FILE (for a release)
83 Instead of using gnupload, for each FILE, create a detached GPG
84 binary signature and a clearsigned directive file like this:
86 echo directory: emacs/pretest > FILE.directive (for a pretest)
87 echo directory: emacs > FILE.directive (for a release)
88 gpg --clearsign FILE.directive
89 Upload by anonymous ftp to ftp://ftp-upload.gnu.org/ the files FILE,
90 FILE.sig, FILE.directive.asc.
91 For a release, place the files in the /incoming/ftp directory.
92 For a pretest, place the files in /incoming/alpha instead, so that
93 they appear on ftp://alpha.gnu.org/.
95 For a release, upload a bz2 tarfile as well; this can save a lot
98 12. After five minutes, verify that the files are visible at
99 ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/ for a pretest, at
100 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/ for a release.
102 13. For a pretest, announce it on emacs-devel and BCC the pretesters.
103 For a release, announce it on info-gnu@gnu.org,
104 info-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, and emacs-devel.
106 14. For a release, update the Emacs homepage in the web repository.
107 Also add the new NEWS file as NEWS.xx.y.