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   1 Instructions to create pretest or release tarballs.
   2 -- originally written by Eli Zaretskii, amended by Francesco Potortì
   3
   4 For each step, check for possible errors.
   5
   6 1.  cvs -q update -Pd
   7
   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.
  11
  12 3.  Set the version number (M-x load-file RET admin/admin.el RET, then
  13     M-x set-version RET).  For a release, add released change log
  14     entries (M-x add-release-logs RET).
  15
  16 4.  rm configure; make bootstrap
  17
  18 5.  Commit configure, loaddefs.el, cus-load.el, finder-inf.el, README,
  19     emacs.texi.
  20
  21 6.  make-dist --snapshot.  Check the contents of the new tar with
  22     admin/diff-tar-files against an older tar file.  Some old pretest
  23     tarballs are kept under fencepost.gnu.org:~pot/emacs-pretest/.
  24
  25 7.  Make xdeltas:
  26     xdelta delta emacs-OLD.tar.gz emacs-NEW.tar.gz emacs-OLD-NEW.xdelta
  27
  28 8.  tar -zxf emacs-NEW.tar.gz; cd NEW
  29     Then, either using `script' or M-x compile, do
  30      configure && make && make -n install
  31     Save the compilation log in compile-NEW.log and compare it against
  32     an old one.  The easiest way to do that is to visit the old log in
  33     Emacs, change the version number of the old Emacs to __, do the same
  34     with the new log and do M-x ediff. Especially check that Info files
  35     aren't built.
  36
  37 9.  `cvs tag TAG' in the toplevel Emacs dir.  TAG is
  38     EMACS_PRETEST_XX_YY_ZZZ for a pretest, don't know for a release.
  39
  40 10. For pretests, make an announcement by selecting new data from the
  41     change logs and save it into emacs-NEW.announce, don't know for a
  42     release.  To get the new data from change logs, you can use:
  43     cvs -q diff -b -r EMACS_PRETEST_XX_YY_ZZZ $(find -name ChangeLog|sort) |
  44     sed -n -e 's/^=\+/\f/p' -e 's/^> //p' -e 's/^diff.*//p' \
  45            -e 's/^RCS file: .cvsroot.emacs.emacs.\(.*\),v/\1/p'
  46
  47 11. rsync emacs-NEW.tar.gz emacs-OLD-NEW.xdelta compile-NEW.log \
  48     emacs-new.announce alpha.gnu.org:/home/alpha/gnu/emacs/pretest/
  49
  50 12. Verify that after five minutes at most the files appear on
  51     ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/.
  52
  53 13. Let Richard Stallman know about the new pretest and tell him to
  54     announce it using the announcement you prepared.