RELEASING.md

Releasing

Source code

Edit variable $VERSION in check_pgactivity, and update the version field at the end of the inline documentation in this script.

In check_pgactivity.spec :

• update the tag in the _tag variable (first line)
• update the version in Version:
• edit the changelog
  • date format: LC_TIME=C date +"%a %b %d %Y"

In debian/, edit the changelog file

Documentation

Generate updated documentation :

pod2text check_pgactivity > README
podselect check_pgactivity > README.pod

Tagging and building tar file

TAG=REL2_3
git -a $TAG
git push --tags
git archive --prefix=check_pgactivity-$TAG/ -o /tmp/check_pgactivity-$TAG.tgz $TAG

Release on github

• go to (https://github.com/OPMDG/check_pgactivity/tags)

• edit the release notes for the new tag

• set "check_pgactivity $VERSION" as title, eg. "check_pgactivity 2.3"

• here is the format of the release node itself: YYYY-MM-DD - Version X.Y

  Changelog:

  • item 1
  • item 2
  • ...

  See http://opmdg.github.io/checkpg_activity/documentation.html

• upload the tar file

• save

Building the RPM file

Installation

yum group install "Development Tools"
yum install rpmdevtools
useradd makerpm

Building the package

su - makerpm
rpmdev-setuptree
git clone https://github.com/OPMDG/check_pgactivity.git
spectool -R -g check_pgactivity/check_pgactivity.spec
rpmbuild -ba check_pgactivity/check_pgactivity.spec

Don't forget to upload the package on github release page.