From 7efa020892353d88d0a99bcad6ac11cc27da8fe3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Dawson Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 13:08:37 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] doc: expand openssl instructions Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/36541 Expand the instructions to cover what is needed when updates are required across all active release lines PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/36554 Reviewed-By: Richard Lau Reviewed-By: Myles Borins --- doc/guides/maintaining-openssl.md | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/maintaining-openssl.md b/doc/guides/maintaining-openssl.md index ad947a4ddfafeb..492eaea75cdd7a 100644 --- a/doc/guides/maintaining-openssl.md +++ b/doc/guides/maintaining-openssl.md @@ -2,6 +2,21 @@ This document describes how to update `deps/openssl/`. +If you need to provide updates across all active release lines you will +currently need to generate three PRs as follows: + +* a PR for master which is generated following the instructions + below which include the QUIC patch. +* a PR for 14.x following the instruction below based on the + 14,x branch but skipping the step to apply the QUICK patch. + This PR should cherry pick back to the active release lines + except for the 10.x line. +* a PR which uses the same commit from the second PR to apply the + updates to the openssl source code, with a new commit generated + by following steps 2 onwards on the 10.x line. This is + necessary because differences in 10.x requires that the + configuration files be regenerated specifically for 10.x. + ## Requirements * Linux environment. * `perl` Only Perl version 5 is tested.