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        </div><p>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. </p><p>For the sake of this example, let's assume you are the
    package owner of the <code class="computeroutput">notes</code>
    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.</p><p>To release your package:</p><pre class="screen">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
</pre><p>Of course, make sure you write upgrade scripts 
      (<a class="xref" href="tutorial-upgrade-scripts.html" title="Writing upgrade scripts">the section called “Writing upgrade scripts”</a>)</p></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tutorial-distribute.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tutorial-notifications.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left">Prepare the package for distribution. </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="tutorial-advanced.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> Notifications</td></tr></table><hr><address><a href="mailto:docs@openacs.org">docs@openacs.org</a></address></div><a name="comments"></a><center><a href="http://openacs.org/doc/current/tutorial-upgrades.html#comments">View comments on this page at openacs.org</a></center></body></html>