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diff --git a/README-release b/README-release index 7a73c9dcd..465bedab6 100644 --- a/README-release +++ b/README-release @@ -13,21 +13,29 @@ Here are most of the steps we (maintainers) follow when making a release. * Ensure that you're on "master" with no uncommitted diffs. This should produce no output: git checkout master; git diff -* Run bootstrap: ./bootstrap +* Run bootstrap one last time. This downloads any new translations: + + ./bootstrap FIXME: enable excluded programs like arch? to get their manual pages? * Pre-release testing: - Ensure that make check syntax-check succeeds. - On at least one SELinux-enabled (enforcing) and one non-SELinux system, - run all tests, both root-only and regular. - Run *all* non-root tests, including expensive and very expensive ones i.e., - run this: make -j1 check RUN_VERY_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes - Run the root-only tests: - sudo env PATH="$PATH" NON_ROOT_USERNAME=$USER make -k check-root + Run the following on at least one SELinux-enabled (enforcing) and + one non-SELinux system: + + make distcheck + make -j1 check RUN_VERY_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes + sudo env PATH="$PATH" NON_ROOT_USERNAME=$USER make -k check-root + + Note the -j1 above. If you use -jN, for larger N, some of the expensive + tests are likely to interfere with concurrent performance-measuring or + timing-sensitive tests, resulting in spurious failures. + + If "make distcheck" doesn't run "make syntax-check" for you, then run + it manually: -* Run "make distcheck" + make syntax-check * Set the date, version number, and release type [stable/alpha/beta] on line 3 of NEWS, commit that, and tag the release by running e.g., |