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| -rw-r--r-- | admin/make-tarball.txt | 19 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/admin/make-tarball.txt b/admin/make-tarball.txt index 872cb00ca28..ec69302dae8 100644 --- a/admin/make-tarball.txt +++ b/admin/make-tarball.txt @@ -43,11 +43,16 @@ General steps (for each step, check for possible errors): because some of the commands below run Make, so they need Makefiles to be present. - For Emacs 28, and as long as --with-native-compilation is not the - default, the tree needs to be configured with native-compilation - enabled, to ensure all the pertinent *.elc files will end up in - the tarball. Otherwise, the *.eln files might not build correctly - on the user's system. + For Emacs 28 and later, as long as --with-native-compilation is + not the default, the tree needs to be configured with + native-compilation enabled, to ensure all the pertinent *.elc + files will end up in the tarball. Otherwise, the *.eln files + might not build correctly on the user's system. + + For a release (as opposed to pretest), delete any left-over "---" + and "+++" markers from etc/NEWS, as well as the "Temporary note" + section at the beginning of that file, and commit etc/NEWS if it + was modified. 2. Regenerate the etc/AUTHORS file: M-: (require 'authors) RET @@ -232,7 +237,9 @@ General steps (for each step, check for possible errors): FILE.gz FILE.xz ... You only need the --user part if you have multiple GPG keys and do - not want to use the default. + not want to use the default. Instead of "your@gpg.key.email" you + could also use the fingerprint of the key, a 40-digit hex number. + (Alternatively, define default-key in your ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf file.) Obviously, if you do not have a fast uplink, be prepared for the upload to take a while. |