I have nunerous Linux newbie questions, just using "bind" as a package example. The new 9.16 test-version of "bind" is considered "upstream.".  Right ?

Is 9.17 "further upstream" ?

What factors will play out by the person choosing to replace the current version of "bind" in the Rawhide repo" with a later version ?

Will that version be latest 9.16 described in the author's email.   I am assuming that the author of the email, Mr. Menšík,  is not the bind package-manager in Fedora.

And finally, what would happen in Fedora 32, for "bind" to get a point-relase update ?

Any helpful insights related to packaging procedures for newbies would be of interest.   I have no clue what one does to compile a or build a package.

Samuel's answers were excellent. I just want to add one thing. On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 4:11 PM Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net&gt; wrote: > That is a huge topic. I don't know where to start with that. I use > "rpmbuild" for my purposes, but I've seen it mentioned that "mock" is > the recommended way to build. Actual packages for Fedora get built in > koji. https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/ There are a set of command > line utilities for managing packages and running builds. For those interested, here's how to try mock yourself. Install mock: sudo dnf install mock Add yourself to the mock group: sudo usermod -a -G mock <your username goes here> Go find a package you care about on koji. Since this thread is about bind, let's look it up. Visit https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/. In the upper right, there is a dropdown which is set to "Packages" (leave that alone), a text box, and a button that says "SEARCH". Type bind in the text box and press return or click the SEARCH button. You now see a list of the bind builds that koji knows about. Click on the top one. This gives you a bunch of information about that build. Look down the left side until you find "RPMs". That is a list of rpm files associated with this build. Find the "src" label. Just below that should be a line that looks like this: bind-9.11.18-2.fc33.src.rpm (info) (download) Click on the download link. You now have a source rpm in your Downloads directory. Let's pretend you have ~/Downloads/bind-9.11.18-2.fc33.src.rpm. Build it yourself like this (assuming you have x86_64 hardware, which seems like a pretty safe assumption): mock -r fedora-rawhide-x86_64 --rebuild ~/Downloads/bind-9.11.18-2.fc33.src.rpm If you want to build for Fedora 32 instead, do it like this: mock -r fedora-32-x86_64 --rebuild ~/Downloads/bind-9.11.18-2.fc33.src.rpm Look in /etc/mock to see all of the distributions you can build for. If you have x86_64 hardware, you can build for the x86_64 and i386 targets. If you want to build for other types of hardware, ask me how to do it. After initiating the mock build, look in /var/lib/mock/fedora-rawhide-x86_64 (or /var/lib/mock/fedora-32-x86_64) to see where the build happened. Build logs and binary artifacts go in the "result" directory. The build itself happens in a chroot, which is in the "root" directory. Look in "root/builddir/build" to find all of the usual directories created by rpmbuild. I think all of that counts as "one thing", don't you? :-) Regards,

I have zero idea what are things like bodhi, koji, mock, rpmbuild, etc.