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Checklist for Hurd releases.

*   Symlinks in /bin; esp. sh, awk, more, cc.
*   Check all symlinks to make sure they don't reference /gd4/hurdinst.
*   Build some static fileutils: ls, ln, cp, mv, chmod.
*   Make sure /i486-gnu contains hard links, not copies.
*   Make sure we are using Hurd versions of su and uptime, not sh-utils.
*   Make sure we are using Hurd fsck, not e2fs.
*   Make install-dist from release dir.
*   Make sure there is only a stubby resolv.conf in the distribution.
*   Make sure /etc/fstab has no active members
*   Make sure nethack is clean
*   Source code for Hurd and libc must be released.
*   Make sure everything listed in SOURCES is on prep.
*   Remove .stamp files from binary tree.
*   Chown everything root.wheel, mode 755/644.
*   /tmp is 1777.
*   Chown /games games.games.
*   Check permissions on set[gu]id files in binary tree.
       (login, ps, w, vmstat, rsh, rlogin, games/lib/nethack/nethack)
*   Check each directory for bogus cruft files.
*   Especially delete .bash_history, .gnunfs*, and .stamp files.
*   Verify installation on bare machine.