From 1a421322c1cc310caedd7efa1694e6ff653808e4 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 --- doc/guides/maintaining-openssl.md | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/maintaining-openssl.md b/doc/guides/maintaining-openssl.md index 1b59c24f8c32d4..025c8d51392628 100644 --- a/doc/guides/maintaining-openssl.md +++ b/doc/guides/maintaining-openssl.md @@ -2,6 +2,18 @@ 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 two PRs as follows: + +* a PR following the instruction below based on the main branch. + 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 first 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.