Re: [LTP] [ANNOUNCE] Linux Test Project for AUGUST 2010 has been released

[Subrata Modak <subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 18:45 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Sep 13, 2010, at 4:02 PM, Paul Larson wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 00:09 +0530, Subrata Modak wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> LTP for August 2010 has been released. Please pick your copy from:
> >> http://ltp.sourceforge.net/,
> > Do we have a well-defined release process that is happening for each
> > release?  There were a few problems and differences with the August
> > release.  None of these are really huge, but they do tend to break
> > things for people that rely on the release tarballs for automated tests.
> > The fact that LTP has gone to releasing once every two months also makes
> > it more of a problem, since those affected will either need to make
> > changes that they'll likely need to roll back in two months, or roll
> > their own tarball.
> > 
> > The fact that make autotools had not been run has already been pointed
> > out.  The release was also done only as a .tgz rather than bzip2 like
> > the previous release.  I don't really care so much on that, but
> > consistency would be good.  Also the .git directory was left behind,
> > making the download size much larger than it should have been.

Hmm. My mistake. I will following the bzip2 pattern and remove the .git
and make sure than make autotools is done for this release.

> > 
> > Any chance there might be an interim release to correct these?

I will try for this in another day or 2.

Regards--
Subrata

> 
> 	I'll create the necessary Makefile targets for this. Subrata needs to handle the rest.
> Thanks,
> -Garrett


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