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diff --git a/Master/tlpkg/doc/releng.txt b/Master/tlpkg/doc/releng.txt index 22683eb6ac6..ef8629b4857 100644 --- a/Master/tlpkg/doc/releng.txt +++ b/Master/tlpkg/doc/releng.txt @@ -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> |