X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/7c362fd9110a1c27b8486ec2fc126fccd6f3ce1e..HEAD:/docs/developer/Release/index.mdwn diff --git a/docs/developer/Release/index.mdwn b/docs/developer/Release/index.mdwn index 906bb946..f1da8b5f 100644 --- a/docs/developer/Release/index.mdwn +++ b/docs/developer/Release/index.mdwn @@ -2,6 +2,16 @@ This is a template on how to do a release. +The intended audience for this is a DragonFly developer, with ssh access to various machines in dragonflybsd.org, with a full release process. + +If you're just looking to build your own modified image: + +1. git clone git://mirror-master.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git +1. git clone git://mirror-master.dragonflybsd.org/dports.git +2. make any changes you want to make +3. cd dragonfly/nrelease +4. ... and proceed with "Build isos and imgs" below. + ##Branching On crater branch the repo: @@ -34,20 +44,17 @@ On the new branch: vi sys/sys/param.h -Edit \__DragonFly\_version and related comments. You only need to add a commented version number for the branch, not the new master. +Edit \__DragonFly\_version and the comments lines. Two separate places! You only need to add a commented version number for the branch, not the new master. vi sys/conf/newvers.sh Edit BRANCH, use 'RELEASE', update version. e.g. RELEASE_2_8 - vi gnu/usr.bin/groff/tmac/mdoc.local - -In the "Default .Os value" section, bump up the version to that of the release (even minor number). - vi etc/Makefile.usr Adjust the default src checkout in /usr/src/etc/Makefile.usr to pull this branch. Otherwise, anyone using the Makefile to download source will get master, and nrelease will build master. + On master: vi sys/sys/param.h @@ -58,9 +65,17 @@ Edit \__DragonFly\_version and related comments. Put in commented numbers for t Edit BRANCH, use 'DEVELOPMENT', update version. - vi gnu/usr.bin/groff/tmac/mdoc.local +## Safety check + +Before you tag, make sure there aren't any last minute surprises - build this new branch, current version, whatever. + +Note that pushing these new tags changes the searched ABI for pkg. For a minor number change, this usually means the new release tag points at the packages used for DragonFly-current - they are usually tagged with the next version. It also means that the new DragonFly-current doesn't have a matching path until you build it. + +For example: When 5.2 was the release, -current pointed at an ABI of 5.4 by default, and that's where packages were stored. Tag 5.4 and DragonFly-current, and 5.4 exists, but 5.6, where -current will point, does not. + +The solution is to build on the new version ASAP. -In the "Default .Os value" section, bump up the version to that of the master (odd minor number). Additionally, in the "DragonFly releases not found in doc-common" section, add a new line (a la the previous ones) for the new master. +Major version number changes leave everything without packages until new ones are build on the new major version number. It's probably possible to simulate corrected version numbers on a -current system, but I don't know it at the time of typing this. ##Tagging @@ -68,13 +83,13 @@ Make sure all changes on the master branch **and** on the new branch have been c On release: - git add sys/sys/param.h sys/conf/newvers.sh gnu/usr.bin/groff/tmac/mdoc.local etc/Makefile.usr + git add sys/sys/param.h sys/conf/newvers.sh etc/Makefile.usr git commit git push On master: - git add sys/sys/param.h sys/conf/newvers.sh gnu/usr.bin/groff/tmac/mdoc.local + git add sys/sys/param.h sys/conf/newvers.sh git commit git push @@ -85,6 +100,11 @@ You may need to set GPG_TTY to get GPG to work if it tries to run pinentry-curse export GPG_TTY=$(tty) +For tcsh: + + setenv GPG_TTY `tty` + + ###In master git tag -s -m "DragonFly x.x.0" vx.x.0 @@ -92,10 +112,10 @@ You may need to set GPG_TTY to get GPG to work if it tries to run pinentry-curse ###In the new branch - git tag -s -m "DragonFly x.y.0rc" vx.y.0rc + git tag -s -m "DragonFly x.y.0rc1" vx.y.0rc1 git push --tags -Do the x.x.0rc immediately. Just before doing the final nrelease build roll a x.x.0 tag for the release branch - the same method, just without "rc" for release candidate. Release as x.x.0. +Do the x.x.0rc1 immediately. If you roll new release candidates, increment the rc number. Just before doing the final nrelease build roll a x.x.0 tag for the release branch - the same method, just without "rc1" for release candidate. Release as x.x.0. A new tag may require a commit beforehand to the release branch to make sure it goes to the right branch. @@ -103,27 +123,41 @@ A new tag may require a commit beforehand to the release branch to make sure it When updating a x.x.1 version, you just need to tag. -## Something in GCC +If there's a significant change between versions - major library change or third-party software update, which is more likely in the development branch of DragonFly - update param.h + + vi sys/sys/param.h + +## updating UPDATING -The file gnu/usr.bin/cc41/cc_prep/config/dragonfly.h has a spot where the major version number for DragonFly is encoded. I don't know if this applies for anything other than gcc 4.1. +Generally, any files not specifically mentioned above as specific to a branch should be updated in master and then cherry-picked to the release branch. src/UPDATING is the most common example. - #define DFBSD_MAJOR 3 -This comes from John Marino's commit: +##dports - +Adjust the default pkg checkout in /usr/src/etc/Makefile.usr for both master and the new branch if necessary. -##Pkgsrc +DragonFly-current looks to the next even number release, so until the path is created on mirror-master, ${ABI} will have to be set manually in /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/df-latest.conf by any -current users. -Adjust bulk builds to the release's pkgsrc branch, and make sure they upload to the right directories on avalon.dragonflybsd.org. +dports for the new release should be built before announcing, so that people testing the release, or a release candidate, can install with immediately available packages. -Adjust the default pkgsrc checkout in /usr/src/etc/Makefile.usr for both master and the new branch if necessary. +### Build isos and imgs -###build isos and imgs +Make sure there's an appropriate dports path for pkg to download from when building images - especially release candidates. When there is a major version change, the packages for master will not be named correctly. (i.e. going from 3.8 to 4.0 means that the master packages were in 3.10, and the directory arrangement will reflect that). Tag, get packages built, **then** create initial ISO/IMG files. +Set DPORTS_PATH when building the image to pick where dports comes from. Ideally, there should be a release tag in dports that corresponds with the DragonFly release. + git fetch --tags + git checkout TAGNAME -###build pkgsrc packages +If not, just point directly to the clone of the dports repo. + + git clone git://git.dragonflybsd.org/dports.git + +If your ISO is too big for a normal CD, try stripping modules. Make sure to use a blank make.conf so local changes don't interfere. Here's the "final" string: + + make -DINSTALLSTRIPPEDMODULES __MAKE_CONF=/dev/null DPORTS_PATH=/the/path/to/dports release + +To build it. (add pkg/gui/whatever targets as necessary.) ###Testing @@ -150,18 +184,22 @@ Copy one of the existing release pages. The general format is : * Special notes and caveats * Release notes - go through git log for these. +Complete, or at least mostly complete, before announcing any versions. + #### Minor releases * Update the release page, the main page, and the general [[Download]] page. * Add new MD5 sums on the release page for the compressed and uncompressed files. -###File Copy +### File Copy Place images in /ftp/iso-images on crater.dragonflybsd.org. They will be rsynced to mirror-master. The file md5.txt should have the md5 output for all the compressed files. It should also have the md5 output for the uncompressed images, so don't just 'md5 *bz2 > md5.txt'; get that separately and copy it into the document. -/root/adm/domd5.sh will get the MD5 sums for the compressed and uncompressed images and print them to stdout. +/root/adm/domd5.sh will get the MD5 sums for the compressed and uncompressed images and print them to stdout. The script will run faster if you edit it to only check the new files, and then manually add the lines to md5.txt. + +A BitTorrent setup would be desirable, but there's no standard process for it as part of release, yet. ###announce users@, web page, Hacker News, Slashdot, Reddit