From the course: Building, Maintaining, and Distributing RPM Packages
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Update or maintain a package
From the course: Building, Maintaining, and Distributing RPM Packages
Update or maintain a package
- [Narrator] While some packages might be released and never change it after that, it's common to need to update or make changes to packages, and to release new versions of software changes as features are added, or as bugs are squished. At the most basic, updating a package involves releasing a package with the same name as an earlier one, bearing a version or a release number that comes later in sequence than the one it replaces. The package manager on a client system uses these values, the package name, and the package version and release to determine whether an already installed package can be updated. And because it's only these few values that determine what makes an update from the client perspective, it's up to us as the packager to decide what goes into those updates. Updating a package can take two forms. As we've seen, patches allow us to introduce changes to existing or underlying source code in the package,…
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