Re: Making releases

[Reuben Thomas]

On 18 March 2011 09:55, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>    # Wait for a URL to become available:
>    u=http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/vc-dwim/vc-dwim-1.4.tar
>    for i in $(seq 100); do echo $i;
>      wget -O - $u.xz.sig > /dev/null && break; sleep 10
>    done
>
> Here's a snippet to download and verify my xz and gz signatures:
>
>    u=http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/vc-dwim/vc-dwim-1.4.tar
>    for i in xz gz xz.sig gz.sig; do
>      wget --quiet $u.$i || break
>      case $i in *.sig) gpg --verify $(basename $u).$i;; esac
>    done

Thanks, that's two extra useful bits of functionality that my process
currently lacks. I wonder whether the place for them is more in a
release tool than yet another addition to maint.mk?

I gather up release-and-announcement code in woger:

http://rrt.sc3d.org/Software/woger

There is no gnu method at present because I removed it, thinking
(erroneously) that gnulib would do everything I wanted. I think I'll
re-add it, rewriting it to use the gnulib announcement email and
upload commands, plus the code above.

Also thanks for the mention of vc-dwim; looks like that should help me
avoid making quite so many mistakes with my patches.

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