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Delivering full revisions

You can create a new revision of a CD image by distributing an update to an existing publication or a completely new publication on your existing, uniquely identified CD image. If a user inserts the new CD on a machine that already has an earlier revision of that CD installed, the user will be prompted to add the new publication, or update the existing one.

Procedure

  1. Open the configuration file wietmsd.xml, located in your collection directory.
  2. If you intend to distribute a new publication with an existing CD image, add the publication to the file.
  3. If you intend to distribute a full revision of an existing publication (that is, an entirely new set of data) with the CD image, find the configitem element with its name attribute set to PubIssue.value. This element contains a child element <value>, which contains a floating point or integer value, referring to the current publication version. Change this value to the next publication issue number, which is the next floating point or integer value.

    For example, if the current element is

    <configitem name="PubIssue.value">
      <value>4.6</value>
    </configitem>

    then change it to

    <configitem name="PubIssue.value">
      <value>4.7</value>
    </configitem>

    or to

    <configitem name="PubIssue.value">
      <value>5.0</value>
    </configitem>
  4. If you changed a PubIssue.value, also find the configitem with its name attribute set to change_level, and set the value of its value child element to the same number, rounded down to an integer.

    For example, change

    <configitem name="change_level">
      <value>4</value>
    </configitem>

    to

    <configitem name="change_level">
      <value>5</value>
    </configitem>
  5. Save and close wietmsd.xml.
  6. Redistribute your new CD image.