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authorCarl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>2004-10-28 08:36:42 +0000
committerCarl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>2004-10-28 08:36:42 +0000
commit2473e782ca5e92cb70837daf4d2950253170fe66 (patch)
tree00d9493c3cbcf6923fe4c00c60afe92f057c05b2 /RELEASING
parent327dc6f2ae304aa0536123bf8224a53290f72c29 (diff)
Abort release-publish if there's already a published tar file with the current version. (release-publish): Add code to update the LATEST-package-version file.
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@@ -58,17 +58,19 @@ fixes are committed. Here are the steps to follow:
6) Run "make release-publish" which will perform the following steps
for you:
+ * Check that no release exist with the current version
* Verify that make distcheck completes successfully
- * Generate the final tar file with the correct version number
+ * Generate the final tar file
* Generate an md5sum file
* scp both files to cairographics.org:/home/www/cairo/snapshots
+ * Create a LATEST-package-version file (after deleting any old one)
* Place local copies of both files in the releases directory
- * Provide some text for the release announcement
+ * Provide some text for the release announcement (see below).
7) Tag the entire source tree with a tag of the form SNAPSHOT_X_Y_Z:
cvs tag SNAPSHOT_X_Y_Z
-8) Send a message to cairo-announce@cairographics.org to announce the
- new snapshot using the text provided by the previous step.
+9) Send a message to cairo-announce@cairographics.org to announce the
+ new snapshot using the text provided from "make release-publish".