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@@ -18,7 +18,12 @@ SECTION 1: Preparation
FIXME SECTION 2: Creating and Testing the Tarball
-* Run the release.rb script; OR Follow the guide lines in appendix A
+* Run the "release_script.sh"
+ VERSION=qualcosina
+ git tag -s $VERSION
+ git archive --prefix=rekonq-$VERSION/ $VERSION | bzip2 > releases/rekonq-$VERSION.tar.bz2
+ git archive --prefix=rekonq-$VERSION/ $VERSION | gzip > releases/rekonq-$VERSION.tar.gz
+
* Test the following:
$ ./configure && make
@@ -54,23 +59,8 @@ Section 4: The Release Day
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-
-APPENDIX A (TODO remove this)
-
-This is what the release_amarok script does:
-
-1. Checkout a fresh copy of amarok, its docs and po; cd into the root
-2. Update APP_VERSION in amarok/src/amarok.h
-3. $ `find -name .svn -exec rm {} \;`
-4. $ export WANT_AUTOMAKE=1.6
-5. $ make -f Makefile.cvs
-6. $ rm -rf autom4te.cache config.h config.log
-7. $ pushd amarok; mv README TODO INSTALL ChangeLog AUTHORS COPYING amarok.lsm ..; popd
-8. $ mv ../multimedia ../amarok-VERSION
-9. $ tar cjf ../amarok-VERSION.tar.bz2 ../amarok-VERSION
-
-
APPENDIX B (TODO create an analogue script)
-To create a changelog in html format for updating the various articles and websites, run generate_changelog.rb.
+To create a changelog in html format for updating the various articles and websites,
+run generate_changelog.rb.
It will output a file called ChangeLog.html.