$Id$ Public domain. Notes on putting together the pretest and yearly release --karl. Check if pretest mirrors need renewing, talk to mirror admins if so: http://tug.org/texlive/mirmon/ /home/httpd/html/texlive/mirmon/tlpretest-mirrors.txt Coordinate schedule with: engine people, LaTeX people, GUST font people general lists To stop updating of certain packages before the general freeze: tlpkg/dev/tlnet-disabled-packages.txt On the day of the last tlnet update, Set opt_frozen in 00texlive.installation.tlpsrc. Freeze should happen at that night's rebuild. Then, the next day, start building tlpretest: 0. Reset opt_frozen to 0 in 00texlive.installation.tlpsrc. 1a. Set up tlpretest: cd /home/ftp/texlive/tlnet tar cf - [a-u]* | (cd ../tlpretest && tar xf -) # do not copy README Update pretest.html, notably including major changes this year; diff new and old bindirs to see if there are interesting new programs. Update /home/ftp/texlive/tlpretest/README. 1b. Preserve final tlnet of current release: cp -ar ../tlnet /home/ftp/historic/systems/texlive/YYYY/tlnet-final 2. Then switch to pretest in cron.tl: critical=--critical # push tlcritical pretest=--pretest # update tlpretest, not tlnet (if not frozen) net_frozen=false # update tlnet|tlpretest (per $pretest) (tlcritical will remain getting updated daily, even though it doesn't work with tlnet any more. That's ok.) 3. The next nightly build will update tlpretest, or run force_rebuild=true cron.tl 4. Basic updates for release year (to start pretest): Master/.mkisofsrc Master/release-texlive.txt Master/texmf-dist/web2c/texmf.cnf Master/texmf-dist/web2c/texmfcnf.lua Master/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLConfig.pm Master/tlpkg/bin/tl-update-tlnet 5. When closer to release: in cron.tl, set images_frozen=false. in tl-update-images, ensure V= the new YYYY and target=/.../test update /home/ftp/texlive/Images/test/README after successful image build, email tldistro@tug.org for info/review. Really test during pretest (really!): .fmt's sharable across endian-different platforms (including luatex). interactive mf '\drawdot (50,50); showit;' When finalizing sources (can be even before tlnet freeze for pretest) version numbers and years and copyright years in: top level version.ac dvipdfmx: configure.ac ChangeLog dvips: configure.ac ChangeLog NEWS dvips.c dvips.h afm2tfm.c dvips.texi kpathsea: version.ac ChangeLog NEWS kpsewhich.c doc/kpathsea.texi texmf.cnf ptexenc: version.ac ChangeLog web2c: NEWS doc/web2c.texi luatexdir/lua/luainit.w install-tl, tlmgr.pl (copyright only) run ~karl/bin/tlversions to see+compare engine/etc. versions After tlnet freeze: in Master/tlpkg, update bundled Windows programs as needed: dviout texworks tlgs tlperl tlpsv When binary set and docs are stable enough: peb + laurens + khaled: no commits. Compare Build/source/inst/texmf to texmf. tl-update-txi tl-update-man # and run make in texmf/doc/man # and check /tmp/so.rules against man1/Makefile Just before total freeze: option adjustrepo in tl-update-tlnet, else install-tl-unx won't go to ctan? put date into NEWS and ChangeLog files. update Master/source: w32tex-src texlive*source mactexdoc install-tl-unx.tar.gz To do total freeze: in cron.tl, set *_frozen=true. probably also just disable the cron entry. Making the big release: - Live unmount of last year's: umount /home/ftp/texlive/Contents/live hx=/home/ftp/historic/systems/texlive prev=2012 this=2013 mkdir $hx/$this cd /home/ftp/texlive/Images cp README.html $hx/$prev/ mv *.iso* $hx/$prev/ mv test/*.iso* . mv test/texlive*.tar.xz* $hx/$this/ # tar version only from historic update README and test/README cd /home/ftp/texlive/tlnet mkdir $hx/$prev/tlnet cd /home/ftp/texlive/tlnet diff -qr . $hx/$prev/tlnet-final # should already be there from before, so: rm -rf [a-z]* mv ../tlpretest/[a-z]* . update README and ../tlpretest/README cd /home/httpd/html/texlive mkdir $hx/$prev/web cp *.html !$ # remove tugstyle.css ref from bugs.html - tug.org stuff: do full install to default location. rm /usr/local/texlive-rel; ln -s texlive/$this /usr/local/texlive-rel create source/ subdir, cp texlive-*-source.tar.xz and w32tex-src.tar.xz change /etc/fstab, mount /home/ftp/texlive/Contents/live. update ~www/texlive web pages (search for $prev): acquire* - general bugs.html - general doc.html - platform list, translation list quickinstall.html - paths w32client.html - new w32client*.zip needed (siep) update historic/systems with final proTeXt and MacTeX, when ready. https://bscw.fernuni-hagen.de ftp://ftp.fernuni-hagen.de/pub/windows/win32/ProTeXt/ update TUG member area with CTAN snapshot, when ready. - announcements: Dick Koch @ updating MacTeX. CTAN @ re-enabling tlnet mirroring. Martin @ torrents. Nikola @ FreeBSD binaries. pretest mirror admins @ done till next year (~www/texlive/mirmon/tl*.txt). - make tag + branch: svn copy -r 26940 -m'texlive-2012.0 tag based on r26940' \ svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk svn://tug.org/texlive/tags/texlive-2012.0 svn copy -r 26940 -m'branch2012 branch based on r26940' \ svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk svn://tug.org/texlive/branches/branch2012 It's the same command, just different destinations. http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn-book.html#svn.branchmerge Do both a branch and a tag so that it's possible to easily compare the current state of the branch with its starting point (the tag). To check out the branch, for critical source fixes for the sake of during-the-year rebuilds or for the distros, if they request it: cd /home/texlive rm -rf branch # when starting a new year on tug mkdir branch; cd branch svn co file:///home/svn/texlive/branches/branch2012/Build/source . >&out - update ~karl/bin/cron.tl, and reenable when feel ready. critical= pretest= net_frozen=false all_frozen=false after release: texcollection/index.html store/index.html /home/httpd/cgi-bin/tug-common.pl update TUG home page.