Re: Simplified release process

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello Guix!
>
> The release process as documented in doc/release.org was terrible
> because it involved a lengthy sequence of error-prone manual steps.
>
> Commit 334dce145122683e576ca4cb6c68c360d4aada7e adds a ‘release’
> makefile target.  “make release” produces the source tarball, the binary
> tarballs, and the GuixSD installation images, which can then be directly
> uploaded.  Offloading must be set up to build binary tarballs for all
> the architectures.

Thank you so much!  This is great!

> Anyway, I would welcome feedback especially from you Ricardo since you
> felt the pain before.  :-)  An easy way to test is by building for a
> single architecture:
>
>   make release -j4 SUPPORTED_SYSTEMS=x86_64-linux \
>     GUIXSD_SUPPORTED_SYSTEMS=x86_64-linux
>
> Note that this will make a couple of commits on your behalf, to update
> the ‘guix’ package, so be careful.

I’m going to give this a try soon.

> I’m also interested in thoughts on how to automate other bits from the
> release process, though they are probably less critical:
>
>   https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/maintenance.git/tree/doc/release.org

I’ll take a look at this again after testing the release target.

Thanks again for all the hard work!

-- 
Ricardo

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