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Instructions to create pretest or release tarballs.
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-- originally written by Gerd Moellmann, amended by Francesco Potortì
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with the initial help of Eli Zaretskii
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For each step, check for possible errors.
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1. cvs -q update -Pd
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2. Bootstrap to make 100% sure all elc files are up-to-date, and to
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make sure that the later tagged version will bootstrap, should it be
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necessary to check it out.
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3. Regenerate Emacs' AUTHORS file (M-x load-file RET
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lisp/emacs-lisp/authors.el RET, then M-x authors RET, then save
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the *Authors* buffer). This may require fixing syntactically
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incorrect ChangeLog entries beforehand.
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4. Set the version number (M-x load-file RET admin/admin.el RET, then
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M-x set-version RET). For a release, add released change log
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entries (M-x add-release-logs RET).
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5. rm configure; make bootstrap
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6. Commit configure, README, AUTHORS, lisp/loaddefs.el,
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lisp/cus-load.el, lisp/finder-inf.el, lisp/version.el,
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man/emacs.texi. For a release, also commit the ChangeLog files in
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all directories.
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7. make-dist --snapshot. Check the contents of the new tar with
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admin/diff-tar-files against an older tar file. Some old pretest
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tarballs are kept under fencepost.gnu.org:~pot/emacs-pretest/, while
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old emacs tarballs are at <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/>.
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8. xdelta delta emacs-OLD.tar.gz emacs-NEW.tar.gz emacs-OLD-NEW.xdelta
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9. tar -zxf emacs-NEW.tar.gz; cd emacs-NEW
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configure && make && make -n install
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Use `script' or M-x compile to save the compilation log in
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compile-NEW.log and compare it against an old one. The easiest way
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to do that is to visit the old log in Emacs, change the version
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number of the old Emacs to __, do the same with the new log and do
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M-x ediff. Especially check that Info files aren't built.
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10. cd EMACS_ROOT_DIR; cvs tag TAG
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TAG is EMACS_PRETEST_XX_YY_ZZZ for a pretest, EMACS_XX_YY for a
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release.
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11. admin/make-announcement OLD NEW
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This creates an announcement for pretests. OLD is the version used
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to make deltas with respect to NEW. Anouncements for pretests need
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to be crafted by hand. Use an older announcement to start with.
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12. For the moment, put the tarballs on a public site and send a GPG
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signed email to <maintainers@gnu.org> with the URLs of the tarballs
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and their md5sum signatures. As of 2003-10, the GNU maintainers are
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working on a better procedure. For reference, here are the previous
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instructions, which are no more valid after the break-in of 2003-08:
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====
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For a pretest, do:
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rsync -aP emacs-NEW.tar.gz emacs-OLD-NEW.xdelta compile-NEW.log \
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emacs-NEW.announce alpha.gnu.org:/home/alpha/gnu/emacs/pretest/.
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For a release, do:
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rsync -aP emacs-NEW.tar.gz emacs-OLD-NEW.xdelta \
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alpha.gnu.org:/home/ftp/gnu/emacs/.
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13. Verify that the files are visible at
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ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/ for a pretest, at
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ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/ for a release.
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14. For a pretest, let Richard Stallman know about the new pretest and
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tell him to announce it using the announcement you prepared. Remind
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him to set a Reply-to header to <emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org>.
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For a release, Richard should prepare the announcement himself,
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possibly starting from a previous announcment.
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# arch-tag: c23c771f-ca26-4584-8a04-50ecf0989390
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