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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2011-12-22 10:13:35 +0100
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2011-12-22 10:15:51 +0100
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doc: update README-release with process to check for new FS magic
* README-release: Run the Makefile rule that checks for new file system magic numbers.
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@@ -24,6 +24,16 @@ Here are most of the steps we (maintainers) follow when making a release.
FIXME: enable excluded programs like arch? to get their manual pages?
+* Check for new file system types by running the following command on
+ a system with the most recent kernel possible (e.g., Fedora rawhide):
+
+ make -C src fs-magic-compare
+
+ If it finds a new file system magic number, add it to src/stat.c.
+ If it is a remote file system, add the new S_MAGIC_* name you created
+ in stat.c to the list of remote file system types in src/tail.c's
+ fremote function.
+
* Pre-release testing:
Run the following on at least one SELinux-enabled (enforcing) and