How to swap Dev to Live

First, update the Test MUD.

• Get Dev into a state where you're happy for people to use it
• Check there are no undocumented verbs (run 'undocverbs' on test)
• Check that there are no major issues with checklist (run checklist public filter critical and checklist public -all +tells filter major)
• Recalibrate the mpoints->levels table in src/extras/levels.cc if you've added or removed missions, or changed mpoint reward values
• Update "info news" and "info wiznews"
• Update the website news page (probably just a copy of info news)
• Increment the version number in configure.in and data/info/motd
• Make sure everything on Dev is committed
• Start a new SVN branch from Dev which will be the new Live. Do this by typing "svn copy http://svn.cryosphere.net/cryosphere/trunk http://svn.cryosphere.net/cryosphere/branches/live_2-8". This will create a new branch tag called "live_2-8". Replace 2-8 with the version number that live will be (See the SVN document for more detail on branches).
• Go to the folder which contains all the branches (on ellyll.net, this is /home/cryodev, and you'll need to be logged in as cryodev) and do "svn switch http://svn.cryosphere.net/cryosphere/branches/live_2-8 cryotest"
• Do a make clean and ./prepare to build the new Test mud
• Test this fresh build thoroughly, ideally using playerfiles copied in from live

When test is in an acceptable state, you may now swap Test to Live.

• Go to the folder which contains the live MUD versions. On ellyll.net, this is under /home/cryolive and you'll need to be logged in as cryolive
• Do "svn co http://svn.cryosphere.net/cryosphere/branches/live_2-8 live_2-8" substituting the correct version number in as before.
• Check the mudname in mudconf, and the port number in gomud
• Check the modules listed under data/modules. Aberchat is typically disabled on testmud, for example.
• commit all the files you just changed. They will stay only on live's branch
• Move the ~/cryosphere symlink. rm ~/cryosphere, ln -sf ~/live_2-3 ~/cryosphere
• run ./prepare
• Copy vardata from the old live
• Create a symlink to test for info changes
• MOve the geoip database from oldlive's data/geoip to the new location (its quite big, so don't copy it about all over the place).
• Cross fingers, shutdown live, start newlive (you8 can't just fix the symlink and reboot into newlive, sadly)
• Take a copy of the old live's log file and put it in a safe place
• Make a run of the daily cron job ~/scripts/daily.sh to make the spodlist info files, etc
• So that the website still works, chmod g+x the following directories: vardata, data, data/info, data/policy, data/help, data/policy
• Tell plett and Ellyll that they need to modify their backup scripts for the new directory