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## Distributing upgrades of your package

by Jade Rubick

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The OpenACS Package Repository builds a list of packages that can be installed on OpenACS installations, and can be used by administrators to update their packages. If you are a package developer, there are a couple of steps you need to take in order to release a new version of your package.

For the sake of this example, let's assume you are the package owner of the `notes` package. It is currently at version 1.5, and you are planning on releasing version 1.6. It is also located in OpenACS's CVS.

To release your package:

    cd /path/to/notes
    cvs commit -m "Update package to version 1.6."
    cvs tag notes-1-6-final
    cvs tag -F openacs-5-1-compat

Of course, make sure you write upgrade scripts (Section , “Writing upgrade scripts”)

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