How to update the package?

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Thu Jan 26 10:11:34 UTC 2006


Ankit Patel wrote:
> I am maintaining the package called "system-config-control". Current 
> version of this package is 1.0-4. I want to provide the new version, 
> 1.0-5 with some modification.
> 
> I have tried the following steps, but haven't any luck in updating it.
> 
> Here are the steps i followed for updating from 1.0-3 to 1.0-4:
> 1. cvs co system-config-control
> 2. cd system-config-control/devel
> 3. modified the spec file with release no. "4%{?dist}"
> 4. commited the changes
> 5. make sources FILES="system-config-control-1.0.tar.bz2" (This .bz2 
> file is with all modifications)

I suspect the build system already had a 
system-config-control-1.0.tar.bz2 uploaded and so attempting to upload a 
new one would have no effect. If the tarball has changed, it should have 
a different version number and hence a different filename.

> 6. commited the changes
> 7. plague-client build system-config-control 

A "make build" would suffice for that.

Paul.




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