[cobalt-users] RaQ550 Can't install Sun patches via BlueLinQ

["Michelle A. Hoyle" <mahlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Summary:
Any attempt to install any packages released via BlueLinq since July 
7th results in "
There was an error verifying the package file. It may be corrupted, 
or it may not have the correct authentication information. The 
software package was not installed." regardless of the authentication 
settings in BlueLinQ.


Discussion:
The last successful package installation I did on my RaQ550 was June 
14th, when I installed installed RaQ550-All-Security-0.0.1-15562 
(openSSH patch).   Today I tried to install:

- RaQ550-All-Security-0.0.3-15578 (v3.0) of glib patch.  I already 
had v2 and had workarounds for all the issues.

- RaQ550-All-Security-0.0.1-16487 (zlib) update.

- RaQ550-All-Kernel-0.0.1-2.4.19C9_V-1 update.


I couldn't install any of them via BlueLinQ.  They all came up with 
the same error:
"There was an error verifying the package file. It may be corrupted, 
or it may not have the correct authentication information. The 
software package was not installed."

The BlueLinQ Advanced setting of "Package must be authenticated" was 
originally unchecked.  Checking it and retrying resulted in the exact 
same behaviour.


I then tried installing RaQ550-All-Security-0.0.1-16487 from the 
command line instead by:

1) cd /home/packages
2) wget 
http://ftp.cobalt.sun.com/pub/packages/raq550/all/RaQ550-All-Security-0.0.1-16487.pkg
3) /usr/sausalito/sbin/pkg_prepare -i RaQ550-All-Security-0.0.1-16487.pkg

Checking the log in /home/tmp/.swupdate/package.log revealed:
--- unpacking ---
RaQ550-All-Security-0.0.1-16487.pkg: -1 (badsig)
can't find package oid.
can't find package oid.
can't find package oid.
[root .swupdate]# pwd
/home/tmp/.swupdate

I also tried using
gpg -d RaQ550-All-Security-0.0.1-16487.pkg > 
RaQ550-All-Security-0.0.1-16487.tar.gz on the original package and 
was rewarded with an error of "gpg: Signature made Mon 07 Jul 2003 
02:32:59 PM MDT using DSA key ID D150B2BB
gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found"

It did, however, seem to produce a valid tar.gz file as I could 
clearly see the contents using tar -tzf.  I didn't try to manually 
install from that point.

Checking my machine log for things I've been up to lately, I can't 
see anything significant that's been done on that machine since the 
last successful package install on June 14th, other than today I was 
trying to install ImageMagick-perl from rpms from 
http://www.nuonce.net/imagemagick.php.  The Perl part wasn't 
successful due to a conflict with 
/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-linux/perllocal.pod.5.6 and therefore 
didn't install anything.  The immediately previous work of installing 
libtiff, bziplibs and ImageMagick main components themselves was 
successful.

[root /usr]# rpm -q -a --last
ImageMagick-5.5.7-1                           Sun Sep  7 10:41:58 2003
libtiff-3.5.7-2                               Sun Sep  7 10:41:15 2003
bzip2-libs-1.0.2-8                            Sun Sep  7 10:40:46 2003
RaQ550-shell-tools-2.06-0                     Tue Jun 24 03:53:43 2003


Any ideas?

Thanks,

Michelle