[racket-dev] Pre-Release Checklist for v5.1

From: Jon Rafkind (rafkind at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 2 17:17:33 EST 2011

> * Jon Rafkind <rafkind at cs.utah.edu>
>   Release tests for (one of the) linux releases:
>   - Test that the `racket' and `racket-textual' source releases
>     compile fine
>   - Test that the binary installers for both work, try each one in
>     both normal and unix-style installation modes. (just ubuntu)
>   [Note: get the release candidates from the URL in this email. Use
>    the 'static table' link to see a list of all tar files available]
>

Running the plt binary installer:
http://pre.racket-lang.org/release/installers/plt-5.0.99.900-bin-i386-linux-ubuntu-jaunty.sh

Checking the integrity of the binary archive... ok.
Unpacking into "/tmp/work/x/plt/racket-tmp-install"... done.
Cannot handle distribution of shared-libraries (yet)

 === context ===
/tmp/work/x/plt/racket-tmp-install/collects/setup/unixstyle-install.rkt:383:0:
move/copy-distribution
/tmp/work/x/plt/racket-tmp-install/collects/setup/unixstyle-install.rkt:
[running body]

Error: installation failed
  (Removing installation files in /tmp/work/x/plt/racket-tmp-install)



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