Uploading The Release
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## Uploading The Release

To release a new distribution, publish the tarball on various places and send an announcement to the `<announcement@lists.logreport.org>` mailinglist, stating the most interesting new features. Furthermore, add a newsitem to the news list of the website. We'll describe how to upload the tarball to various places.

### The LogReport Webserver

Upload the tarball to the pub area on the LogReport server. The area is mirrored automagically by the download.logreport.org servers; updates are done every 6 hours. Upload like this:

     $ scp lire-20001211.tar.gz hibou.logreport.org:/var/www/logreport.org/pub/

On hibou, do:

                    $ cd /var/www/logreport.org/pub
     $ chown .www lire-20010525.tar.gz
     $ chmod g+w lire-20010525.tar.gz

     $ tar zxf lire-20001211.tar.gz
     $ rm current && ln -s lire-20001211 current
     $ rm current.tar.gz && ln -s lire-20001211.tar.gz current.tar.gz
     $ rm -rf lire-20001205
     $ mv lire-20001205.tar.gz archive

Update the `README.txt` file: Run

     $ cd /var/www/logreport.org/pub
     $ ( echo \
       'current is the latest official release'; echo; ls -lF c* ) > README.txt

Check the symlink to the documentation stuff in the tarball.

Check if the stuff in http://logreport.org/pub/docs is still up to date.

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