cheat sheet for making a (stable) release tarball. 0. check if your name settings in .hgrc are correct. (have your real name and email address in there). 1. clone a fresh tree: $ hg clone http://gredler.at/hg/olsrd-0.5.7 $ hg update -C OLSRD_0_5_7_BRANCH 2. check if the DEBUG settings in Makefile.inc are correct: DEBUG ?= 0 NO_DEBUG_MESSAGES ?= 1 now check if it builds correct: $ make build_all 3. Change VERS in Makefile.inc to your target release. in this example the target release is 0.5.6-r5 most likely this is carrying some pre-XXX-release tag. $ grep -E "^VERS" Makefile VERS = pre-0.5.6-r5 change it to VERS = 0.5.6-r5 4. commit & push 5. display the used tags: $ hg tags tip 1757:77e1ccb98227 OLSRD_0_5_6_R3 1728:feb3d7883ff0 OLSRD_0_5_6_R2 1688:1573e530a679 OLSRD_0_5_6 1669:d91b47b34ba7 OLSRD_0_5_6_RC7 1644:1516480b552f OLSRD_0_5_6_RC6 1634:f1b2cdeafd74 OLSRD_0_5_6_RC5 1622:99b89bb6a9a4 OLSRD_0_5_6_RC4 1612:0490bdcb7910 OLSRD_0_5_6_RC3 1591:c6c9571fe4d6 OLSRD_0_5_6_RC2 1587:bd66c98dc4c8 OLSRD_0_5_6_RC1 1526:fd8f4e49a398 OLSRD_0_5_5 1460:233036647bca OLSRD_0_5_5_RC1 1452:669b81f6918e OLSRD_0_5_4 1264:60f04fc39707 OLSRD_0_5_3 1158:00991ca84047 OLSRD_0_5_2 1121:283effb1472c OLSRD_0_5_1 1101:c23aab9db1e1 OLSRD_0_5_0 994:612f5a21a303 OLSRD_0_4_10 893:a39cda38836b OLSRD_0_4_9 704:43d67c4814ef OLSRD_0_4_8 404:e9beaf82c0ea now tag the tree (please stick to the tagging scheme). $ hg tag OLSRD_0_5_6_R5 6. make the release tarball $ cd scripts/ $ ./mk-tarball.sh [ ... ] ### creating /tmp/olsrd-0.5.6-r5.tar.gz 6c996e94de06115d19dbbcaf6847051a /tmp/olsrd-0.5.6-r5.tar.gz ### creating /tmp/olsrd-0.5.6-r5.tar.bz2 e476819be5747758e3d6f579e4096bce /tmp/olsrd-0.5.6-r5.tar.bz2 7. check if everything is in the release tarball (ideally on a a differnt machine) and try to build from the tarball. 8. upload the the .tgz and .bz2 tarballs to the http://www.olsr.org/downaload/0.5/ sectaion and add a release articel on the web. 9. Change VERS in Makefile.inc to your *next* target release. in this example the next target release is pre-0.5.6-r6 change it from: $ grep -E "^VERS" Makefile VERS = 0.5.6-r5 to VERS = pre-0.5.6-r6 commit & push you are done, congratulations !