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@@ -306,18 +306,19 @@ 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.
+ Put date into NEWS and ChangeLog files above,
+ plus all web2c/*/ChangeLog except cwebdir luatexdir *tiedr.
Update Build/source/tardate.ac && reautoconf.
tlmgr version number in texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/NEWS.
In cron.tl, force catalogue_compare=true for final syncs.
Run make distclean in Build/source/utils/asymptote
- to aviod that build junk ending up in the source tarball.
- Reenable images_frozen=false so we get the new sources,
+ to avoid that build junk ending up in the source tarball.
+ Set images_frozen=false so we get the new sources,
or can run tl-update-images --tar-source-only
and --tar-devsource-only to just build the necessary tarballs
for Master/source if you don't want to do a whole build.
- Tell developers no more commits: tldev +
- hirata, hironori, luigi, mojca, takuji,
+ Tell developers no more commits: tlbuild, dvipdfmx, tex-live, luigi.
+ Run build, by hand or by cron.
X. The day before the final pretest:
In cron.tl, catalogue_compare=false to avoid skew.
@@ -332,10 +333,10 @@ Y. The day of the final tlnet-from-branch build, which may or may not
Z. After final build, to do total freeze:
In cron.tl, set *_frozen=true.
- Also, set catalogue_compare=false now or at some point earlier.
+ Also, check catalogue_compare=false.
For double protection, disable the nightly cron jobs.
Also, in /l/bin/mirror-ctan, disable Catalogue updates,
- to avoid unnecessary changes if we have to rebuild the final image.
+ to avoid unnecessary changes if we have to rebuild the final image.
Z0. Ask for torrents to be created. In 2021,
Tim Stewart <timoteostewart1977@gmail.com>