How to Release

This document describes how to release E-Cell SE version3.

Change Version No.

There are some files to change their version no. for release.

  • ecell3/
    • configure.in 
      ECELL_MAJOR_VERSION=3
ECELL_MINOR_VERSION=1
ECELL_MICRO_VERSION=91
    • ecell3.doxy.in is need not any change.
  • ecell3/ecell/
    • configure.in 
      ECELL_MAJOR_VERSION=3
ECELL_MINOR_VERSION=1
ECELL_MICRO_VERSION=91
  • ecell3/test/ecell.spec 
    Summary: E-Cell is a generic software package for cellular modeling and simulation.
Name: ecell
Version: 3.1.91
Release: 1
  • NEWS 
    ecell-3.1.91: 9-Mar-2003


ecell-3.1.90: 3-Mar-2003


ecell-3.1.6:  22-Feb-2003

Other packages..

  • ecell3/dmtool/
    • configure.in 
      AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(dmtool,0.0)
AC_PROG_MAKE_SET
  • ecell3/osogo/
    • configure.in 
      AC_INIT(MainWindow.py)
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(osogo,0.0)
dnl AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
  • ecell3/modeleditor/
    • configure.in 
      ECELL_MAJOR_VERSION=3
ECELL_MINOR_VERSION=1
ECELL_MICRO_VERSION=102

Change version no. of shared libraries.

If you need change it, read and check the libtool Manual.

  • ecell3/ecell/libecs/
    • Makefile.am 
      libecs_la_LDFLAGS= -version-info 0:1:0 #-rpath ${libdir}
libecs_la_LIBADD= ${LIBLTDL} -L${KORANDOM_DIR}/korandom/ -lkorandom ${GSL_LIBADD}
libecs_la_SOURCES=\
  • ecell3/ecell/libemc/
    • Makefile.am 
      CXXFLAGS= @CXXFLAGS@ #-D_REENTRANT

libemc_la_LDFLAGS= -version-info 0:1:0

Put Release Tag into CVS Repository

execute the cvs command at top directory of ecell3 source code as follow, 

holly:~/wrk/ecell3% cvs tag Release_3_1_91

== Edit description File (If it is needed.)==

Make tarball and check this

  • make tarball (including document files) 
    lupin:~/ecell/ecell3% ./autogen.sh
lupin:~/ecell/ecell3% make doc-all
lupin:~/ecell/ecell3% make dist
    and then the installation test is necessary step before release.

Make RPM package

  • check your local X-Windows screen permission (need xhost + )
  • copy the tarball and .SPEC file to src/redhat directory and do some step as follow, 
    holly:~/wrk/ecell3% sudo su
Password:
[root@holly ecell3]# cp -a ./ecell-3.1.91.tar.gz /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/
[root@holly ecell3]# cp -a ./test/ecell.spec /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/
[root@holly ecell3]# cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/
[root@holly SPECS]# rpmbuild -ba ecell.spec
...
[root@holly SPECS]# ls ../SRPMS/
ecell-3.1.91-1.src.rpm 

[root@holly SPECS]# ls ../RPMS/i386/
ecell-3.1.91-1.i386.rpm 
[root@holly SPECS]#