[Plplot-cvs] SF.net SVN: plplot:[8784] trunk/README.Release_Manager_Cookbook

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Revision: 8784
          http://plplot.svn.sourceforge.net/plplot/?rev=8784&view=rev
Author:   airwin
Date:     2008-09-20 06:11:29 +0000 (Sat, 20 Sep 2008)

Log Message:
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Add in rsync instructions for uploading the website from a local version.

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/README.Release_Manager_Cookbook

Modified: trunk/README.Release_Manager_Cookbook
===================================================================
--- trunk/README.Release_Manager_Cookbook	2008-09-19 20:12:17 UTC (rev 8783)
+++ trunk/README.Release_Manager_Cookbook	2008-09-20 06:11:29 UTC (rev 8784)
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 to verify your answers, then does all the rest of it (downloading a
 throwaway copy of the PLplot source code, building the documentation,
 installing the documentation, building the examples, running the examples,
-installing the examples, and building the remainder of the website)
+installing the examples, and installing the remainder of the website)
 automatically.  I (AWI) tested this script using the four answers
 
 Summary:
@@ -54,10 +54,22 @@
 documentation is there and all the previous problems with source code
 accessibility for the Ada, f77, and OCaml examples are now fixed.
 
-N.B. SourceForge is no longer ssh-accessible.  The SF documentation says
-you should use rsync to upload local websites (such as the one created by
-the above script) to SF, but I haven't tried that yet.
+Once you are satisfied with the locall website, you can upload it to
+SourceForge with rsync.  I give the directions here, although you may want
+to do this later (see below) in the release process.
 
+For the above WEBSITE_PREFIX, here is what worked for me from my computer
+with the hostname of raven where that WEBSITE_PREFIX directory was
+created.
+
+rsync -av --delete \
+/home/irwin/public_html/plplot/htdocs/* \
+airwin,pl...@we...:htdocs 
+
+Adjust for your username and WEBSITE_PREFIX.  The ",plplot" part of the
+username makes sure you have the right group permissions and default website
+directory location for PLplot.
+
 (3) Creating a test tarball from trunk
 
 This optional step is only required if you have some concerns about how
@@ -296,8 +308,7 @@
 
 N.B. SourceForge is no longer ssh accessible.  Therefore,
 once you are satisfied with the local website, use rsync to upload it to
-SourceForge.  (AWI: still reading the SF documentation about how to
-do that.)
+SourceForge (see above).
 
 
 Immediate preparation for next release cycle


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