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

["Alan J Sonnenberg" <alan.sonnenberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I did not want to reply all, hope it is ok. 

My confusion is that the file:
ftp://ftp.cobalt.com/pub/packages/raq550/all/RaQ550-All-Security-0.0.1-14934.pkg

seems to be a binary file? Not tarred or zipped or anything. Does this make sense?

Thanks much

-----Original Message-----
From: Carlos González-Cadenas [mailto:cgonzalez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 7:49 AM
To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [cobalt-developers] New person questions, re: "Manufacturing" appliances with Cobalts

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.

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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