Rough Guide to doing Stable Point Releases in Debian ---------------------------------------------------- - sudo to dak - bash: suite=oldstable suitename=lenny pusuite=oldstable-proposed-updates oldrev=5.0.8 newrev=5.0.9 export SCRIPTVARS=/srv/ftp-master.debian.org/dak/config/debian/vars . $SCRIPTVARS . "${configdir}/common" . "${configdir}/dinstall.functions" umask 022 export LANG=C export LC_ALL=C pg_timestamp pre_${suite}_${newrev} cd ~ mkdir -p ${suite}_${newrev} cd ${suite}_${newrev} dak control-suite -l ${pusuite} > ${pusuite}.list dak control-suite -l ${suite} > ${suite}.list - ask SRMs if there is anything to be skipped from this release. If so edit ${pusuite}.list (and later the Changelog too) - bash: dak make-changelog -s ${pusuite} -b ${suite} | cat - ${ftpdir}/dists/${suite}/ChangeLog | sponge ${ftpdir}/dists/${suite}/ChangeLog cat ${pusuite}.list | dak control-suite --add ${suite} dak control-suite --remove ${pusuite} < ${pusuite}.list - sync with stable RM if there is any propup needed. do it, if so: like, cat /srv/release.debian.org/www/squeeze/6.0/6.0.4/propup.unstable | dak control-suite --add unstable Note: unstable first, then testing - ask rms if they have RMs to do. - and then check if they have a d-i update. if so, bash: # set dioldver to "empty" if there is no old to remove diver=20090123lenny9 dioldver=20090123lenny8 dak copy-installer -s ${pusuite} -d ${suite} ${diver} cd $ftpdir/dists/${suite}/main if [ "${dioldver}" != "empty" ]; then for iarch in $(dak admin s-a list-arch ${suite}); do if [ -d "installer-${iarch}/${dioldver}" ]; then echo "Moving installer-${iarch}/${dioldver} to morgue" mkdir -p "${base}/morgue/d-i/installer-${iarch}/" mv "installer-${iarch}/${dioldver}" "${base}/morgue/d-i/installer-${iarch}/" fi done fi cd $ftpdir/dists/${suite} - Update version number in README, README.html and dists/README, Clean up dists/stable/ChangeLog (add header, basically). bash: $EDITOR ChangeLog ../README ../../README* rm -f *~ ../*~ ../../*~ - Update the 'Debian.r' symlink in dists/ cd $ftpdir/dists/ rm -f Debian${oldrev} ln -s ${suitename} Debian${newrev} - Update fields in suite table in postgresql. bash: mdate=$(date +"%d %B %Y") psql projectb <> Contents-${carch}.new; gzip -9v Contents-${carch}.new; mv Contents-${carch}.new.gz Contents-${carch}.gz; done rm {main,contrib,non-free}/Contents-* dak generate-releases -f -s ${suite} - have the SRMs sign it and put the signature in. - Check if a mirror push is needed or next dinstall is enough. for a push o if so, bash: TRACEFILE="${ftpdir}/project/trace/ftp-master.debian.org" DATE_SERIAL=$(date +"%Y%m%d01") FILESOAPLUS1=$(awk '/serial/ { print $3+1 }' ${TRACEFILE} ) if [ "$DATE_SERIAL" -gt "$FILESOAPLUS1" ]; then SERIAL="$DATE_SERIAL" else SERIAL="$FILESOAPLUS1" fi date -u > ${TRACEFILE} echo "Using dak v1" >> ${TRACEFILE} echo "Running on host: $(hostname -f)" >> ${TRACEFILE} echo "Archive serial: ${SERIAL}" >> ${TRACEFILE} cd ${mirrordir} rsync -aH --link-dest ${ftpdir} --delete --delete-after --ignore-errors ${ftpdir}/. . date -u > /srv/ftp.debian.org/web/mirrorstart echo "Using dak v1" >> /srv/ftp.debian.org/web/mirrorstart echo "Running on host $(hostname -f)" >> /srv/ftp.debian.org/web/mirrorstart sudo -H -u archvsync /home/archvsync/runmirrors > ~dak/runmirrors.log 2>&1 &