On 06/20/2017 12:35 PM, John D. Ament wrote: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 6:16 AM Daniel Gruno <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 06/20/2017 12:11 PM, John D. Ament wrote: >>> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 5:19 PM Daniel Gruno <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>>> On 06/19/2017 08:32 PM, John D. Ament wrote: >>>>> I was searching around for information and wanted to get some simple >>>>> examples together. How are the releases for Pony Mail created (tar + >>>>> signatures)? >>>>> >>>>> John >>>>> >>>> >>>> Spotty Internet today, but here goes. >>>> >>>> Pony Mail is designed to just run out of the box with the code in the >>>> repo, no compiling should be required. Furthermore, master is, ideally, >>>> always releasable code (there may be times when this isn't true, let's >>>> work on that when we have enough people-power), so with that in mind: >>>> >>>> - Create a a.b branch (0.10, 0.11 etc) from master >>>> - tarball it all, it's all read-to-run code >>>> - put the tarball somewhere (add checksum file etc) >>>> >>> >>> This is the part I'm missing. What command(s) are you using to generate >>> the checksums? >> >> $checktool tarball.tar.gz > tarball.tar.gz.(md5|sha1|sha256|asc), >> where $checktool is: >> >> for md5: md5sum >> for sha1: sha1sum >> for sha256: sha256sum >> >> For the .asc file, I believe I used Kleopatra last time to sign the >> tarball. >> >> > Hmmm so if I'm using gpg --encrypt would I just use my own email as the > recipient of the file?
You would use --sign, not --encrypt. Short primer at http://ponymail.incubator.apache.org/building.html now. With regards, Daniel. > > >> I'll set up a page on the web site with the instruction when time allows. >> > > Basically, I'm trying to come up with an ELI5 guide for the incubator > website on how to create a source release. > > >> >> With regards, >> Daniel. >> >>> >>> >>>> - hold a vote on the tarball - the git branch will help with provenance >>>> - when vote finished, push to dist/release >>>> - profit >>>> >>>> With regards, >>>> Daniel. >>>> >>> >> >> >
