From: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:30:46 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document how to roll a release for the next time.
X-Git-Tag: v3.4.10.908~27
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fb256190bb3215ac2bcfa37d18c7df122badec81;p=genkernel.git

Document how to roll a release for the next time.
---

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c0c8a2c..5c39064 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@
 # Distributed under the GPL v2
 # $Id$
 
+  17 Dec 2009; Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> HACKING:
+  Document how to roll a release for the next time.
+
   17 Dec 2009; Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> genkernel:
   Tag 3.4.10.907 release.
 
diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index 02081d3..f1facd3 100644
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -11,3 +11,10 @@ Phases:
 - source global scripts
 - 
 
+Rolling a release:
+- Bump the version in the main genkernel file.
+- echangelog commit the bump
+- git tag -a -m "Tag release $PV" v${PV}
+- git archive --prefix genkernel-$PV/ --format tar -o /tmp/genkernel-${PV}.tar v${PV}
+- bzip2 -9v /tmp/genkernel-${PV}.tar
+- upload /tmp/genkernel-${PV}.tar.bz2 to the hosting.