How to update the package?

[Paul Howarth]

Ankit Patel wrote:
> */Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>/* wrote:
> 
>     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 up!
>     load 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.
> 
> But when i do "make sources" then it gives me the correct source tarball 
> (.bz2). So, i don't understand where is the problem?

Does it do that if you delete the tarball first? If the tarball is 
already there then it won't re-download it.

You should never issue a new tarball with the same version number and 
different contents anyway - it's just bad practice.

Paul.