Release Instructions

This page documents varios aspects of creating releases and binary builds suitable for distribution of the project products:

Releasing Source Code

The current release procedures are reliant on the makerelease system

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Producing Binaries

Linux RPMs

Creating binaries for SuSE-based and RedHat-based systems (including RHEL, Fedora and CentOS distributions) uses the RPM spec file from dist/net-snmp.spec.

The procedure is as follows:

• Create $HOME/rpmbuild/SPECS and copy the spec file there
• Create $HOME/rpmbuild/SOURCES and copy the tarball there
• Ensure Version in the spec file matches the version of the tarball
• Append a suitable vendor identifier to the Release in the spec file
• Run the command rpmbuild -ba $HOME/rpmbuild/SPECS/net-snmp.spec

This produces three binary RPM files (under $HOME/rpmbuild/RPMs) together with a source RPM file (under $HOME/rpmbuild/SRPMs)

Fedora RPMs

1. git clone ssh://YOURUSERID@pkgs.fedoraproject.org/net-snmp
2. cd net-snmp
3. vi net-snmp.spec
4. fedpkg local

Solaris

• SYSV packages
  • see dist/net-snmp-solaris-build
• tar balls
  • to be unpacked beneath /usr/local