| 1 | Instructions for making a LinBox release: |
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| 3 | 1. Run 'svn up ' to make sure you are fully up to date and on the |
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| 4 | HEAD branch [1] |
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| 5 | 2. Update the version number in Makefile.am next to 'VERSION = ', and in configure.in:3 |
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| 6 | 3. Run 'make distcheck' on your local copy of LinBox. If there are any |
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| 7 | problems, fix them and commit the fixes to CVS. Usually problems |
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| 8 | will be things like header files that are not being installed, but |
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| 9 | should be. Make sure 'make distcheck' runs once without having any |
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| 10 | errors before moving onto the next step. Also, record all of the |
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| 11 | changes you make in ChangeLog. |
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| 12 | 4. Add a ChangeLog entry for Makefile.am with the text 'New version |
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| 13 | <version>' where <version> is the version you are releasing. |
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| 14 | 5. Make sure everything in your local copy of LinBox is committed. In |
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| 15 | particular, either commit or eliminate anything from step 1 that |
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| 16 | was marked modified. |
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| 17 | 6. Run 'make dist' (or 'make distcheck') so that the last ChangeLog |
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| 18 | entry is included in your tarball. |
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| 19 | 7. Copy the tarball produced in step 6 to the web server. |
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| 20 | 8. Update the LinBox web site with information on the new release -- |
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| 21 | mention it in news.html and update the latest version information |
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| 22 | in index.html and download.html |
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| 24 | [1] Of course, this assumes that you want to release from the head |
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| 25 | branch. If HEAD represents the development version and you |
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| 26 | actually want to release from a stable branch, you should use |
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| 27 | cvs up -dP -r linbox-<version> |
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| 28 | where <version> is the version identifier in the stable branch |
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