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Here are most of the steps we (maintainers) follow when making a release.
* start from a clean, up-to-date git directory.
git checkout master; git pull
* Run ./configure && make maintainer-clean
* Ensure that the desired versions of autoconf, automake, bison, etc.
are in your PATH. See HACKING for the complete list.
* Ensure that you're on "master" with no uncommitted diffs.
This should produce no output: git checkout master; git diff
* Make sure your local gnulib directory is up to date.
* Run bootstrap: ./bootstrap
FIXME: enable excluded programs like arch? to get their manual pages?
* Pre-release testing:
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 "make distcheck"
* Manually set the date, version number, and [stable/alpha/beta] on
line 3 of NEWS, then do e.g.,:
v=7.3
git commit -F <(printf 'version '$v'\n\n* NEWS: Record release date.\n') -a
git tag -s -m "coreutils $v" v$v HEAD
* Run the following to create release tarballs. Your choice selects the
corresponding upload-to destination in the emitted gnupload command.
The different destinations are specified in cfg.mk. See the definitions
of gnu_ftp_host-{alpha,beta,major}.
# "TYPE" must be major, beta or alpha
make TYPE
* Test the tarball. copy it to a few odd-ball systems and ensure that
it builds and passes all tests.
* While that's happening, write the release announcement that you will
soon post.
Once all the builds and tests have passed,
* Run the gnupload command that was suggested by your "make major" run above.
* Wait a few minutes (maybe up to 30?) and then use the release URLs to
download all tarball/signature pairs and use gpg --verify to ensure
that they're all valid.
* Push the new tag:
git push origin tag v<JUST_RELEASED_VERSION_NUMBER>
* Send the gpg-signed announcement mail, e.g.,
To: info-gnu@gnu.org, coreutils-announce@gnu.org
Cc: coordinator@translationproject.org, bug-coreutils@gnu.org
Subject: coreutils-7.1 released [stable]
* Approve the announcement here:
http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/admindb/coreutils-announce
* Announce it on Savannah, too:
From here:
https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/coreutils/
click on the "submit news", then write something like the following:
Subject: coreutils-7.2 released [stable]
The announcement is here:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.announce/49
Then go here to approve it:
https://savannah.gnu.org/news/approve.php?group=coreutils
* After each non-alpha release, update the on-line manual accessible via
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/
by running the gnu-web-doc-update script.
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