From ba19da0b4ede056aa7d70a9761260c4dcf14f837 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 19:13:55 +0000
Subject: doc, error msgs

git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@54008 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
---
 Master/tlpkg/doc/releng.txt | 22 +++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

(limited to 'Master/tlpkg/doc')

diff --git a/Master/tlpkg/doc/releng.txt b/Master/tlpkg/doc/releng.txt
index a62567f15b2..8608ceeb3ba 100644
--- a/Master/tlpkg/doc/releng.txt
+++ b/Master/tlpkg/doc/releng.txt
@@ -72,6 +72,10 @@ and
 1a. Then preserve final tlnet of current release YYYY:
 cd /home/ftp/texlive/tlnet
 cp -ar ../tlnet /home/ftp/historic/systems/texlive/YYYY/tlnet-final
+# if and when post-freeze updates are made, also update tlnet-final with:
+rsync -anv \
+  /home/ftp/texlive/tlnet/ /home/ftp/historic/systems/texlive/YYYY/tlnet-final/
+to see what will be changed, and then remove the -n to actually do it.
 
 1b. Set up tlpretest:
 Update /home/ftp/texlive/tlpretest/README.
@@ -126,14 +130,16 @@ It's likely that .tlpsrc files will need to be adjusted.
 
 8a. svn commit all the above.
 
-9. After that trial build looks ok, set in cron.tl:
-net_frozen=false
-   And do:
-mkdir /home/ftp/texlive/tlpretest/tlpkg
-touch !$/texlive.tlpdb
-force_rebuild=true cron.tl
+9. After that trial build looks ok, set up tlpretest:
+  cd /home/ftp/texlive/tlpretest
+  cp -ar ../tlnet/[a-u]* . # omit tlnet/README*
+  force_rebuild=true cron.tl
+We use cp because we want to start with exactly the last tlnet,
+and not recreate all packages, so that a file with a given name is never
+rewritten. See recreate comments in tl-update-tlpdb and tl-update-containers.
 
-10. Life and daily updates go on.
+10. Life and daily updates go on. In cron.tl, set:
+  net_frozen=false
 
 A. At some point, after tlnet freeze:
   Update gpg expiration, see tlpkg/gpg/tl-key-extension.txt.
@@ -238,6 +244,8 @@ hx=/home/ftp/historic/systems/texlive
 prev=`date -d "last year" +%Y`; echo $prev
 this=`date +%Y`; echo $this
 mkdir $hx/$this
+chgrp texlive !$
+chmod g+ws !$
 
 cd /home/ftp/texlive/Images
 cp README.md $hx/$prev/
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