[racket-dev] Pre-Release Checklist for v5.3

From: Jon Rafkind (rafkind at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 25 02:36:01 EDT 2012

>
> * 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 (note that they're still called `plt' and `mz' at
>     this stage).
>   - 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]
>

There was a problem with unix style installation:


Checking the integrity of the binary archive... ok.
Unpacking into "/home/jon/tmp/binary/racket/racket-tmp-install" (Ctrl+C to abort)...
Done.
Moving bin -> /home/jon/tmp/binary/racket/bin
Moving collects -> /home/jon/tmp/binary/racket/lib/racket/collects
cMoving doc -> /home/jon/tmp/binary/racket/share/racket/doc
Moving include -> /home/jon/tmp/binary/racket/include/racket
Moving lib -> /home/jon/tmp/binary/racket/lib/racket
Moving man -> /home/jon/tmp/binary/racket/share/man
Moving README -> /home/jon/tmp/binary/racket/share/racket/doc/README
Writing uninstaller at: /home/jon/tmp/binary/racket/bin/racket-uninstall...
Rewriting configuration file at: /home/jon/tmp/binary/racket/lib/racket/collects/config/config.rkt...
Recompiling to /home/jon/tmp/binary/racket/lib/racket/collects/config/compiled/config_rkt.zo...
default-load-handler: cannot open input file
  path: /home/jon/tmp/binary/racket/racket-tmp-install/collects/setup/compiled/unixstyle-install_rkt.zo
  system error: No such file or directory; errno=2
  context...:
   standard-module-name-resolver
Error: installation failed

Posted on the dev mailing list.