Before pushing stuff, please rebase it on a current master so we get
an uncomplicated commit history. Avoid merges where possible.
</para>
+ <para>
+ Here's an example git sesssion that should result in a merge-free history:
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>
+fk@t520 ~/git/privoxy $git checkout master
+Switched to branch 'master'
+Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.
+# Make sure you have the latest changes
+fk@t520 ~/git/privoxy $git pull
+Already up to date.
+# Create a local banch for changes
+fk@t520 ~/git/privoxy $git checkout -b local-branch
+Switched to a new branch 'local-branch'
+# Create some change
+fk@t520 ~/git/privoxy $gmake dok dok-tidy
+[...]
+# Review your change
+fk@t520 ~/git/privoxy $git diff
+[...]
+# Commit your changes if they look goood
+fk@t520 ~/git/privoxy $git commit -m "developer-manual: Regenerate" doc/webserver/
+[local-branch 1abb7316] developer-manual: Regenerate
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+# Review your commit
+fk@t520 ~/git/privoxy $git show
+[...]
+# Go to the master branch
+fk@t520 ~/git/privoxy $git checkout master
+Switched to branch 'master'
+Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.
+# Make sure you are still in sync
+fk@t520 ~/git/privoxy $git pull
+[...]
+Already up to date.
+# Apply the commit you made to the local-branch
+fk@t520 ~/git/privoxy $git cherry-pick local-branch
+[master 046e85e2] developer-manual: Regenerate
+ Date: Tue Dec 15 05:10:07 2020 +0100
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+# Make sure the history looks as expected
+fk@t520 ~/git/privoxy $git log -p
+# Finally push your change to the Privoxy repository
+fk@t520 ~/git/privoxy $git push
+[...]
+# Go back to the local branch
+fk@t520 ~/git/privoxy $git checkout local-branch
+# Rebase on top of master and continue hacking
+fk@t520 ~/git/privoxy $git rebase master
+Successfully rebased and updated refs/heads/local-branch.
+</programlisting>
<!--
<para>
Branches are used to fork a sub-development path from the main trunk.
</sect2>
<!-- XXX: Document how to write test reports and where to send them -->
+ <!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
+ <sect2 id="privoxy-regression-test"><title>Testing with <application>Privoxy-Regression-Test</application></title>
+ <para>
+ If you compiled, packaged or merely installed Privoxy, it is recommended to run
+ <application>Privoxy-Regression-Test</application> to verify that at least
+ the tested parts of <application>Privoxy</application> are working as expected.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ This is actually pretty easy. For details, please see
+ <command>perldoc privoxy-regression-test.pl</command>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Here is an example of what <application>Privoxy-Regression-Test</application> can do for you:
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>
+# Run all the tests
+fk@t520 ~ $privoxy-regression-test.pl
+2020-12-14 12:16:32: Asking Privoxy for the number of action files available ...
+2020-12-14 12:16:32: Gathering regression tests from 9 action file(s) delivered by Privoxy 3.0.30.
+2020-12-14 12:16:32: Executing regression tests ...
+2020-12-14 12:16:41: Ooops. Expected removal but: 'Referer: https://p.p/' is still there.
+2020-12-14 12:16:41: Failure for test 785. Header 'Referer: https://p.p/' and tag 'hide-referrer{conditional-block}'
+2020-12-14 12:16:41: Ooops. Got: 'Referer: https://p.p/' while expecting: 'Referer: http://p.p/'
+2020-12-14 12:16:41: Failure for test 791. Header 'Referer: https://p.p/' and tag 'hide-referrer{conditional-forge}'
+2020-12-14 12:16:44: Executed 1087 regression tests. Skipped 115. 1085 successes, 2 failures.
+# Repeat one of the failing tests and get a curl command to quickly reproduce the problem
+# without causing too much log noise.
+fk@t520 ~ $privoxy-regression-test.pl --test-number 785 --verbose --debug 4
+2020-12-14 12:17:55: Asking Privoxy for the number of action files available ...
+[...]
+2020-12-14 12:17:56: Executing regression tests ...
+2020-12-14 12:17:56: Executing: curl --include -H 'Proxy-Connection:' -H 'Connection: close' -s -S --user-agent 'Privoxy-Regression-Test 0.7.2' --max-time '5' --globoff -H 'X-Privoxy-Control: hide-referrer{conditional-block}' -H 'Referer: https://p.p/' http://p.p/show-request 2>&1
+2020-12-14 12:17:56: Ooops. Expected removal but: 'Referer: https://p.p/' is still there.
+2020-12-14 12:17:56: Failure for test 785 (0/13/5). Header 'Referer: https://p.p/' and tag 'hide-referrer{conditional-block}'
+2020-12-14 12:17:56: Executed 1 regression tests. Skipped 1201. 0 successes, 1 failures.
+ </programlisting>
+ <para>
+ Use the if the <command>--privoxy-address</command> option if the
+ http_proxy environment variable isn't configured.
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
+
<!-- ~~~~~ New section ~~~~~ -->
<sect2 id="fuzzing"><title>Fuzzing Privoxy</title>
<para>
<programlisting>
$ git tag
# to see the tags
- $ git log [last release tag]..HEAD > /tmp/log
+ $ git log [last release tag]..master > /tmp/log
# get the commit log since the last release
$ utils/makeChangeLog /tmp/log > /tmp/change.log
# reformat the commit log
link from the main page since we need to keep manuals for various
versions available). The CGI pages will link to something like
<literal>https://www.privoxy.org/$(VERSION)/user-manual/</literal>. This
- will need to be updated for each new release. There is no Makefile
- target for this at this time!!! It needs to be done manually.
+ needs to be updated for each new release and is done with the
+ <quote>webserver</quote> target.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Tag all files in Git with the version number with
- <quote><command>git tag v_X_Y_Z</command></quote>.
+ <quote><command>git tag -s v_X_Y_Z</command></quote>.
Don't use vX_Y_Z, ver_X_Y_Z, v_X.Y.Z (won't work) etc.
</para>
</listitem>
Also suggested: <filename>Developer Manual</filename>
(doc/webserver/developer-manual) and <filename>ChangeLog</filename>
(top-level directory). <filename>FAQ</filename> and the manuals are
- HTML docs. There are also text versions in
- <filename>doc/text/</filename> which could conceivably also be
- included.
+ HTML docs.
</para>
<para>
The documentation has been designed such that the manuals are linked
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Other configuration files (<filename>default.action</filename> and
+ Other configuration files (<filename>default.action</filename>,
+ <filename>regression-tests.action</filename> and
<filename>default.filter</filename>) should be installed as the new
defaults, but all previously installed configuration files should be
preserved as backups. This is just good manners :-) These files are
<para>
First, <emphasis>make sure that you have freshly exported the right
version into an empty directory</emphasis>. (See "Building and releasing
- packages" above). Then run:
+ packages" above). Then run from that directory:
</para>
<programlisting>
- cd current
autoheader && autoconf && ./configure
</programlisting>
<para>
<programlisting>
make tarball-dist
</programlisting>
- <para>
- To upload the package to Sourceforge, simply issue
- </para>
- <programlisting>
- make tarball-upload
-</programlisting>
- <para>
- Go to the displayed URL and release the file publicly on Sourceforge.
- For the change log field, use the relevant section of the
- <filename>ChangeLog</filename> file.
- </para>
- </sect3>
-
- <sect3 id="newrelease-rpm"><title>SuSE, Conectiva or Red Hat RPM</title>
- <para>
- In following text, replace <replaceable class="parameter">dist</replaceable>
- with either <quote>rh</quote> for Red Hat or <quote>suse</quote> for SuSE.
- </para>
- <para>
- First, <emphasis>make sure that you have freshly exported the right
- version into an empty directory</emphasis>. (See "Building and releasing
- packages" above).
- </para>
- <para>
- As the only exception to not changing anything after export from Git,
- now examine the file <filename>privoxy-</filename><replaceable class="parameter">dist</replaceable><filename>.spec</filename>
- and make sure that the version information and the RPM release number are
- correct. The RPM release numbers for each version start at one. Hence it must
- be reset to one if this is the first RPM for
- <replaceable class="parameter">dist</replaceable> which is built from version
- X.Y.Z. Check the
- <ulink url="https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/files/">file
- list</ulink> if unsure. Else, it must be set to the highest already available RPM
- release number for that version plus one.
- </para>
- <para>
- Then run:
- </para>
- <programlisting>
- cd current
- autoheader && autoconf && ./configure
-</programlisting>
- <para>
- Then do
- </para>
- <programlisting>
- make <replaceable class="parameter">dist</replaceable>-dist
-</programlisting>
- <para>
- To upload the package to Sourceforge, simply issue
- </para>
- <programlisting>
- make <replaceable class="parameter">dist</replaceable>-upload <replaceable class="parameter">rpm_packagerev</replaceable>
-</programlisting>
- <para>
- where <replaceable class="parameter">rpm_packagerev</replaceable> is the
- RPM release number as determined above.
- Go to the displayed URL and release the file publicly on Sourceforge.
- Use the release notes and change log from the source tarball package.
- </para>
- </sect3>
-
- <sect3 id="newrelease-solaris"><title>Solaris</title>
- <para>
- Login to Sourceforge's compilefarm via ssh:
- </para>
- <programlisting>
- ssh cf.sourceforge.net
-</programlisting>
- <para>
- Choose the right operating system (not the Debian one).
- When logged in, <emphasis>make sure that you have freshly exported the right
- version into an empty directory</emphasis>. (See "Building and releasing
- packages" above). Then run:
- </para>
- <programlisting>
- cd current
- autoheader && autoconf && ./configure
-</programlisting>
- <para>
- Then run
- </para>
- <programlisting>
- gmake solaris-dist
-</programlisting>
- <para>
- which creates a gzip'ed tar archive. Sadly, you cannot use <command>make
- solaris-upload</command> on the Sourceforge machine (no ncftpput). You now have
- to manually upload the archive to Sourceforge's ftp server and release
- the file publicly. Use the release notes and Change Log from the
- source tarball package.
- </para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="NEWRELEASE-WINDOWS"><title>Windows</title>
<para>
This will create
<filename>../privoxy_&p-version;-&p-status;-1_i386.deb</filename>
- which can be uploaded. To upload the package to Sourceforge, simply
- issue
+ which can be uploaded.
</para>
- <programlisting>
- make debian-upload
-</programlisting>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="newrelease-macosx"><title>Mac OS X</title>
<title>Uploading and Releasing Your Package</title>
<para>
After the package is ready, it is time to upload it
- to SourceForge, and go through the release steps. The upload
- is done via FTP:
- </para>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Upload to: <ulink url="ftp://upload.sourceforge.net/incoming">ftp://upload.sourceforge.net/incoming</ulink>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- user: <literal>anonymous</literal>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- password: <literal>ijbswa-developers@lists.sourceforge.net</literal>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- <para>
- Or use the <command>make</command> targets as described above.
- </para>
- <para>
- Once this done go to
- <ulink url="https://sourceforge.net/project/admin/editpackages.php?group_id=11118">
- https://sourceforge.net/project/admin/editpackages.php?group_id=11118</ulink>,
- making sure you are logged in. Find your target platform in the
- second column, and click <literal>Add Release</literal>. You will
- then need to create a new release for your package, using the format
- of <literal>$VERSION ($CODE_STATUS)</literal>, e.g. <emphasis>&p-version;
- (beta)</emphasis>.
+ and go through the release steps. The upload
+ is done at
+ <ulink url="https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/upload/">SourceForge</ulink>
+ after logging in.
</para>
<para>
Now just follow the prompts. Be sure to add any appropriate Release
When all (or: most of the) packages have been uploaded and made available,
send an email to the
<ulink url="mailto:privoxy-announce@lists.privoxy.org">announce mailing
- list</ulink>, Subject: "Version X.Y.Z available for download". Be sure to
+ list</ulink>, Subject: "Announcing Privoxy X.Y.Z $CODE_STATUS". Be sure to
include the
<ulink url="https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/files/">
download location</ulink>, the release notes and the Changelog. Also, post an
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