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Author: sidney
Date: Tue Dec 6 20:56:14 2022
New Revision: 1905814

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1905814&view=rev
Log:
Minor edit to release build instructions documentation

Modified:
spamassassin/trunk/build/README

Modified: spamassassin/trunk/build/README
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/spamassassin/trunk/build/README?rev=1905814&r1=1905813&r2=1905814&view=diff
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--- spamassassin/trunk/build/README (original)
+++ spamassassin/trunk/build/README Tue Dec 6 20:56:14 2022
@@ -213,13 +213,17 @@ Run "svn status" to ensure you're buildi
information on how to set up to run the sawampersand test.

- Run the tests that require sudo privileges. DO NOT run these on a machine that
- runs a production copy of SpamAssassin.
+ runs a production copy of SpamAssassin. As a precaution these tests require that
+ you edit t/config.dist to set run_root_tests to y. Also, these tests run some
+ processes as user 'nobody' and must be run in a directory that is accessible. Typical
+ linux systems give no permissions for "other" on home directory trees. You will
+ have to change the permissions or run these tests from within a different directory.

sudo make test TEST_FILES="t/root*.t"

- Check in the updated Changes file, and SpamAssassin.pm.

- svn commit -m "preparing to release X.Y.Z"
+ svn commit -m "preparing to release X.Y.Z" Changes lib/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm

(If you are privately preparing a security release, and don't wish to
perform commits to public SVN repos, you can defer this step until