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| author | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2011-12-22 10:13:35 +0100 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2011-12-22 10:15:51 +0100 |
| commit | 6e3299fcdb783b19552dbb2ceb0d012ce51a3501 (patch) | |
| tree | 151692a17d5dee50c46395d2344f957b7a6527c1 /README-release | |
| parent | 896529709230021ba3d2b0000b28a6c4af13970a (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-6e3299fcdb783b19552dbb2ceb0d012ce51a3501.tar.gz | |
doc: update README-release with process to check for new FS magic
* README-release: Run the Makefile rule that checks for new file
system magic numbers.
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/README-release b/README-release index af2610a8c..e76adb70f 100644 --- a/README-release +++ b/README-release @@ -24,6 +24,16 @@ Here are most of the steps we (maintainers) follow when making a release. FIXME: enable excluded programs like arch? to get their manual pages? +* Check for new file system types by running the following command on + a system with the most recent kernel possible (e.g., Fedora rawhide): + + make -C src fs-magic-compare + + If it finds a new file system magic number, add it to src/stat.c. + If it is a remote file system, add the new S_MAGIC_* name you created + in stat.c to the list of remote file system types in src/tail.c's + fremote function. + * Pre-release testing: Run the following on at least one SELinux-enabled (enforcing) and |