Difference between revisions of "Bering-uClibc 4.x - Developer Guide - The Release Process"

Revision as of 20:29, 9 March 2011

Introduction

The target audience for this page are LEAF maintainers and admins.

The page describes the release process, mostly as reminder. Note: Various steps require (different) admininstrator privileges.

Rebuild new release from source

It is recommended to do a completly fresh build from the sources. Create a new directory and copy buildtool the directory into it. Compile the build environment and all packages.

./buildtool.pl build buildenv
tools/buildall.sh

Finally build the lwp files for webconf.

./buildlwp.sh

Commit Packages to SF SCM

Copy all generated lrp packages to [path to git]/leaf/bering-uclibc4/bin/packages. Commit and push into the git repository:

[path to git]/leaf/bering-uclibc4/bin/packages git commit *
[path to git]/leaf/bering-uclibc4/bin/packages git push

Create images and source tarball

Create the images:

fakeroot ./buildimage.pl --image=Bering-uClibc_geode_syslinux_ser --relver 4.0-nn
fakeroot ./buildimage.pl --image=Bering-uClibc_i486_isolinux_vga --relver 4.0-nn
fakeroot ./buildimage.pl --image=Bering-uClibc_i486_syslinux_ser --relver 4.0-nn
fakeroot ./buildimage.pl --image=Bering-uClibc_i486_syslinux_vga --relver 4.0-nn
fakeroot ./buildimage.pl --image=Bering-uClibc_i686_syslinux_vga --relver 4.0-nn
fakeroot ./buildimage.pl --image=Bering-uClibc_i686_isolinux_vga --relver 4.0-nn

It is a good idea to finally test the newly build version with qemu:

qemu -cdrom image/Bering-uClibc_i486_isolinux_vga/Bering-uClibc_4.0-nn_i486_isolinux_vga.iso 

Create the sources tarball as required by SF policy:

cd [path to git]/leaf/bering-uclib4/buildtool/repo$ 
tar cvf - * | gzip -9 -c - > [your/upload-dir]/Bering-uClibc_4.0-nn_src.tgz

Tag release in SCM

[path to git]/leaf/bering-uclibc4# git tag -a 4.0-nn
[path to git]/leaf/bering-uclibc4# git push origin 4.0-nn

Clean up Trac

Edit the milestone in LEAF Trac and either close the active tickets or move them to later version.

Create README and Announcement

Upload files to SF FRS

Login to SF FRS Create New Folder, named with the release version. Change to the created folder and upload Readme and all the images.

Create Packages page

Wiki Changes

Known Issues

Changelog