From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from youngberry.canonical.com (youngberry.canonical.com [91.189.89.112]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C67F93256 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2018 07:34:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 1.general.paelzer.uk.vpn ([10.172.196.172] helo=lap.fritz.box) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1fy9PB-0007FG-Ji; Fri, 07 Sep 2018 05:34:05 +0000 From: Christian Ehrhardt To: Luca Boccassi , dpdk stable Cc: Thomas Monjalon , Christian Ehrhardt Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2018 07:33:50 +0200 Message-Id: <20180907053350.10919-1-christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.17.1 Subject: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] update step 5.5 in regard to tag/tarball/web handling X-BeenThere: stable@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches for DPDK stable branches List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2018 05:34:05 -0000 Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt --- README | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 8d37403..8d1ceda 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -118,8 +118,26 @@ I haven't write a script for that. But the two have to be done before we making a formal release. Thus, this section is titled 5.5. Git push to dpdk-stable remote will trigger the dpdk host server to generate -the release tar package. It will return a md5sum in the end, which is needed -to update the dpdk-web. +the release tar package. +Be careful to push the branch first and only then the tag (or both at once), +otherwise some server side automations might silently fail to update properly. + +This will return a md5sum in the end, which is needed to update the dpdk-web. +Example: + remote: MD5 (to copy in HTML page) + remote: 5e278012506c76d981e4283a92adec1c /srv/rel/dpdk-18.05.1.tar.xz + +You want to prepiare a change to the DPDK-web, so grab their repository. + $ git clone git://dpdk.org/tools/dpdk-web + +Modify the file content/download/_index.md + - update the tarball name + - check that the link to the documentation really has your tag listed + at the top left + - check that the downloadable tarball matches the md5 listed on the + git push output + - add that new md5 to the file +and finally suggest that change to the web team at web@dpdk.org 6-announce-release -- 2.17.1