Added doc on making a release

Added signing and checksumming tarball to preparation script
Renamed said script

3 files changed, 102 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/doc/RELEASING b/doc/RELEASING
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d6d008f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/RELEASING
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+== PROCEDURE FOR MAKING A NEW RELEASE ==
+
+- Source Tarball -
+1. Create a clean tarball, and sign & checksum it
+	./prepare-package.sh
+2. Upload tarball & related files
+	scp getht-*.tar.bz2* <user>@dl.sv.nongnu.org:/releases/getht/
+
+- Webpage -
+1. Download current webpage
+	wget http://www.nongnu.org/getht/
+2. Add new version information
+3. Upload updated webpace
+	scp index.html <user>@dl.sv.nongnu.org:/releases/getht/
+
+- Infrastructure -
+1. Add to new version option to bug tracker 
+	https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/admin/field_values.php?group_id=9005&list_value=1&field=release_id
+
+- Announcement -
+1. Post news to mailing list
+	getht-general@nongnu
+2. Post news to Savannah
+	https://savannah.nongnu.org/news/submit.php?group=getht
+3. Post new version to the following directories:
+	Freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/add-release/64475/
+	IceWalkers: http://www.icewalkers.com/submit.php
+	SourceWell: http://sourcewell.berlios.de/updapp.php?id=3655
+
+- Clean up -
+1. Delete local copy of release files
+	rm index.html getht-*.tar.bz2*
diff --git a/prepare-package.sh b/prepare-package.sh
index 141d5df..8832ed2 100755
--- a/prepare-package.sh
+++ b/prepare-package.sh
@@ -27,15 +27,9 @@ echo Packaging GetHT version $VERSION
 
 echo Copying sources to a temporary directory
 rm -rf $TMPDIR/getht-$VERSION && \
-mkdir $TMPDIR/getht-$VERSION && \
-cp -R * $TMPDIR/getht-$VERSION && \
+git clone . $TMPDIR/getht-version && \
 cd $TMPDIR/getht-$VERSION
 
-echo Removing Arch metadata
-rm -rf \{arch\}
-rm -rf .arch_ids
-rm -f ++log.getht*
-
 # ensure version number in configure.ac is set correctly
 sed -i "s|^AC_INIT(getht, .*)$|AC_INIT(getht, $VERSION)|" configure.ac
 
@@ -59,5 +53,11 @@ rm -rf getht-$VERSION
 cd $ORIGDIR
 mv $TMPDIR/getht-$VERSION.tar.bz2 .
 
+echo Signing package
+gpg -b getht-$VERSION.tar.bz2
+
+echo Checksumming package
+sha1sum getht-$VERSION.tar.bz2
+
 echo "Packaging of GetHT $VERSION complete."
 echo "The tarball resides at ./getht-$VERSION.tar.bz2"
diff --git a/prepare-release.sh b/prepare-release.sh
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+++ b/prepare-release.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Copyright 2006,2008 Nick White
+#
+# This file is part of GetHT.
+#
+# GetHT is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# GetHT is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with GetHT.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+TMPDIR="/tmp"
+ORIGDIR=$(pwd)
+
+VERSION=$(gawk -F \" '{print $2}' src/version.h | \
+	sed -e ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n//g')
+
+echo Packaging GetHT version $VERSION
+
+echo Copying sources to a temporary directory
+rm -rf $TMPDIR/getht-$VERSION && \
+git clone . $TMPDIR/getht-version && \
+cd $TMPDIR/getht-$VERSION
+
+# ensure version number in configure.ac is set correctly
+sed -i "s|^AC_INIT(getht, .*)$|AC_INIT(getht, $VERSION)|" configure.ac
+
+echo Building necessary autotools parts
+autoreconf -i
+
+echo Cleaning make environment
+make clean
+
+echo Cleaning up working directory
+rm -rf autom4te.cache
+rm prepare-package.sh
+
+echo Packaging into a tarball
+cd ..
+tar -cjf getht-$VERSION.tar.bz2 getht-$VERSION
+
+echo Removing temporary directory
+rm -rf getht-$VERSION
+
+cd $ORIGDIR
+mv $TMPDIR/getht-$VERSION.tar.bz2 .
+
+echo Signing package
+gpg -b getht-$VERSION.tar.bz2
+
+echo Checksumming package
+sha1sum getht-$VERSION.tar.bz2
+
+echo "Packaging of GetHT $VERSION complete."
+echo "The tarball resides at ./getht-$VERSION.tar.bz2"