Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] New portage version with latest fixes in git is needed

[Sebastian Luther]

Am 04.01.2014 16:03, schrieb Mike Frysinger:
> On Saturday 04 January 2014 09:56:28 Brian Dolbec wrote:
>> On Sat, 2014-01-04 at 15:28 +0100, Pacho Ramos wrote:
>>> I think this was pointed some days ago, but would be nice (and
>>> needed) to get a newer portage version including fixes from
>>> git, some of them important like:
>>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=490362
>>>
>>> Not sure if I can contribute with something on this, but if you
>>> thing so, please let me know
>>
>> Yes, I planned to get it out this weekend, if all goes well.
>>
>> There are one or two more patches to apply. Then I'll start
>> packaging it.
>>
>> Is everyone else in agreement?
>
> we should document the release process.  ideally, it should be as
> simple as: make dist PV=2.1.8
>
> and even: make distcheck PV=2.1.8 -mike
>

There is mkrelease.sh in the portage repo.

The following commands creates a portage-2.2.7.tar.bz2 that's almost
identical to the one released by Zac (Changelog differs):

$ ./mkrelease.sh --changelog-rev v2.2.6 -t 2.2.7 2.2.7

The first argument states where the Changelog entries should begin
(tag v2.2.6 in this case).
The second argument is the tag to create the tarball from.
The third argument is the new version.

I don't know how Zac choose the --changelog-rev parameter. That's why
the Changelog is different.

For 2.2.8 the process should look like:
* Create a tag named v2.2.8.
* ./mkrelease.sh --changelog-rev ???? -t 2.2.8 2.2.8
* Upload the tarball somewhere
* Copy the ebuild (adjust SRC_URI)


Sebastian