RE: [cobalt-developers] New person questions, re: "Manufacturing" appliances with Cobalts

[Carlos González-Cadenas <cgonzalez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We are also in a similar project. We have fought with these issues before.

It's not a prerequisite for a package

-to be zipped
-to be signed (with gpg or others)

So, a tarred(only) package would fit BLQ needs. That is, if you zip and/or
sign it, the package is still valid.

-----Mensaje original-----
De: cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]En nombre de Alan J
Sonnenberg
Enviado el: martes, 23 de julio de 2002 13:28
Para: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Asunto: [cobalt-developers] New person questions, re: "Manufacturing"
appliances with Cobalts


Hello-

I am new to the Cobalt environment and am doing my best to come up to speed
and could use any  assistance available. We are deploying a new product on
the Cobalt RaQ550 and I have been tasked with doing simple ;) provisioning
things such as:

. Building a custom OSRCD
. creating our package(s)
. building an architecture for our own package update system using the
BlueLinQ technology


I just have a "simple issue" to which your answer may help me shed light on
bigger issues. In addition I have a few broader questions, which I would
really appreciate your expertise.

<Simple issue>
I created an RPM for our application and grouped it with several other rpms
required by our application. I set out yesterday to create our package.
Documentation looks pretty straight forward, but I was concerned because all
of my documents are about the RAQ3/4.
So being the curious type I downloaded a package from the Cobalt site:
ftp://ftp.cobalt.com/pub/packages/raq550/all/RaQ550-All-Security-0.0.1-14934
.pkg

What I do not understand is why this file is NOT a compressed gzip file? I
thought I should be able to untar, look at packing list, etc. and then apply
that expertise to my .pkg file. I download any package from the
packages/raq4 and they are all gzip compressed data. Insight?

</Simple Issue>

To further my level of confusion, I also have a document by Sun titled "The
Qube 3 Software Architecture Developer's Guide, V1.0". This document seems
totally different for building packages, but looks more appropriate for the
RAQ550. I will take any pointers along the following lines....

Where do I find documentation for the RAQ550? I have heard that I should use
Cube3 or RaQ3/4 documents?
What document can I use to architect a BluelinQ server of my own? It is our
thinking to QA Cobalt patches first before release to our customer and our
customer would point to our update server.

Thanks,
Alan



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