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Diffstat (limited to 'Master/tlpkg/doc/releng.txt')
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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. |