1. Package Management Guide
  2. Cumulative and Noncumulative Update Packages

Cumulative and Noncumulative Update Packages

When you use a cumulative update strategy for deploying packages, you have one package that you add to, rebuild, and re-release to users. You do not create a new package each time you have a modification that you want to deploy. To use a cumulative package, follow these steps:

  1. Change the package assembly status to Inactive.

  2. Go to the Package Revisions form.

  3. Add the changed or new objects to the package.

  4. Rebuild the package.

  5. Redeploy the package.

When you use a noncumulative update strategy, you create and deploy a different package each time you add or change an object. For example, if you deploy one modification a week for 10 weeks, you would have 10 different packages, each containing only the software change for that week.