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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2021-07-18 17:16:29 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2021-07-18 17:16:29 +0000
commit78591567fc12bcecdf39f8d632d39c12568401ea (patch)
treebb339f362e3a36d653efa2f7fbd7e219b12abde7 /Master/tlpkg/doc
parent24ff0d4c91e4e1d9c2d149465d25d78e24825325 (diff)
checking fmt sharability across architectures
git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@59973 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
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-rw-r--r--Master/tlpkg/doc/releng.txt23
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Master/tlpkg/doc/releng.txt b/Master/tlpkg/doc/releng.txt
index 563ed61953c..a567d28d19b 100644
--- a/Master/tlpkg/doc/releng.txt
+++ b/Master/tlpkg/doc/releng.txt
@@ -273,11 +273,20 @@ M. As pretest proceeds, update the doc:
tl-update-txi
Don't forget to commit everything (texmf-dist/doc, Build/source, ...).
-N. Really test during pretest (really! don't leave it for Knuth to do!):
- .fmt's sharable across endian-different platforms (including luatex).
- interactive mf '\drawdot (50,50); showit;' % and from * prompt
-
-O. Two days before the final pretest (i.e., to-be-published) build:
+N. Really test during and at end of pretest that
+ (really! don't leave it for post-release failure)
+ .fmt's sharable are across endian/word-different platforms,
+ including luatex:
+ tlpkg/bin/tl-check-fmtshare RHOST:RDIR
+ where RHOST is a host you can ssh to with different specifications
+ than the local host, and RDIR is a TL:Build/source/Work/texk/web2c/
+ build directory. (Must build TL there first before running, naturally.)
+ Nelson Beebe has a wide variety of hosts available.
+
+O. Test that basic interactive Metafont is still working:
+ mf '\drawdot (50,50); showit;' % and from * prompt
+
+W. Two days before the final pretest (i.e., to-be-published) build:
Put date into NEWS and ChangeLog files above.
Update Build/source/tardate.ac && reautoconf.
tlmgr version number in texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/NEWS.
@@ -291,13 +300,13 @@ O. Two days before the final pretest (i.e., to-be-published) build:
Tell developers no more commits: tldev +
hirata, hironori, luigi, mojca, takuji,
-P. The day before the final pretest:
+X. The day before the final pretest:
In cron.tl, catalogue_compare=false to avoid skew.
In tl-update-tlnet, option adjustrepo 1, else install-tl-unx won't go to ctan
Update Master/source (if not earlier):
xz wget w32tex-src texlive*source mactexdoc install-tl-unx.tar.gz
-Q. The day of the final tlnet-from-branch build, which may or may not
+Y. The day of the final tlnet-from-branch build, which may or may not
also be the day of the final tlpretest-from-trunk build:
Set frozen=>1 in branch TLConfig.pm.
Freeze of tlnet should happen at that night's rebuild.