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authorFrancesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>2003-10-24 12:19:56 +0000
committerFrancesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>2003-10-24 12:19:56 +0000
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The upload procedure that was described is no more valid after the
break-ins. Need to describe how to upgrade AUTHORS using emacs-lisp/authors.el.
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@@ -49,7 +49,13 @@ For each step, check for possible errors.
to make deltas with respect to NEW. Anouncements for pretests need
to be crafted by hand. Use an older announcement to start with.
-12. For a pretest, do:
+12. For the moment, put the tarballs on a public site and send a GPG
+ signed email to <maintainers@gnu.org> with the URLs of the tarballs
+ and their md5sum signatures. As of 2003-10, the GNU maintainers are
+ working on a better procedure. For reference, here are the previous
+ instructions, which are no more valid after the break-in of 2003-08:
+ ====
+ For a pretest, do:
rsync -aP emacs-NEW.tar.gz emacs-OLD-NEW.xdelta compile-NEW.log \
emacs-NEW.announce alpha.gnu.org:/home/alpha/gnu/emacs/pretest/.
For a release, do: