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Rogelio Mita rogeliomita at activitycentral.com
Wed Feb 13 08:00:04 EST 2013


Hi all!

2013/2/8 Rogelio Mita <rogeliomita at activitycentral.com>

> Thanks a lot Martín!.
>
> Perfect the answer!, then... we understand that the contents manifest file
> that is the result of build (ussualy .toc, that is used to update method,
> olpc-update) will also be affected by this process, is this right?.
> Because we no found place to verify this assertion in some documentation,
> only the specification of contents manifest, but found nothing about it,
> only the following lines that do not answer to our question:
>
> A contents manifest is just a convenience object for bundling a number of
>> related directory objects; it should not be directly signed. Instead, the
>> root directory object in the contents manifest should be the element which
>> receives a signature.
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contents_manifest_specification
>
> Thanks again!
>
> Regards!
>
2013/2/8 Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com>
>
>> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Rafael Ortiz <rafael at activitycentral.com>
>> wrote:
>> > and how its resulting files are signed (for instance the content
>> manifest
>> > file, specifically for the upgrade files), OOB uses some method when the
>> > signature module is activated ?, you have to sing them in an special
>> way?.
>>
>> If you have the signing keys in the build machine, it's really easy.
>> Set the .ini file to use the signing modules, tell it where the keys
>> are, and it'll do it automagically for you.
>>
>> Any suggestions on this =) ? Thanks!


>  See in OOB sources, modules/signing/README. Skip the "external signing"
>> section.
>>
>> hth,
>>
>>
>>
>> m
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>
>
>
> --
> Roger
>
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