On Mon, Jan 04, 2010, Wilson Jason wrote: > Can we get another update on what is happening with Openpkg-4?
Current status quo is: 1. as announced, we have finally frozen the old RPM 4 based OpenPKG 2 CURRENT distribution (OpenPKG 3 actually was the commercial OpenPKG ENTERPRISE variant on which OpenPKG 4 now partly is based) and moved it from ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/current/SRC/ to http://download.openpkg.org/stacks/archive/openpkg-2-20091231/ This is now 100% frozen (no more package updates) and exists as a reference point for those who don't want to upgrade to the new OpenPKG 4. 2. we have migrated the CURRENT history of all package specifications from our ancient CVS repository to a new Monotone repository and will soon commit new package upgrades there. The old CVS repository is now gone and no longer available. 3. we have still polished and fine-tuned the OpenPKG 4.0 framework a little more. The latest version (4.0.1) is available under http://download.openpkg.org/framework/release/source/ When bootstrapping the latest version always can be found under the generic URL: http://openpkg.org/go/download/openpkg.src.sh 4. Thomas has written some more details about the available licensing options for OpenPKG 4 in his blog: http://www.lotterer.net/blog/en/274-openpkg-4-0-licenses-explained In short: 90 day evaluation is easily possible with the built-in EVAL license and until the VALUE license can be finally purchased online (soon), the PROMO license grants you fully production use, too. And for real Open Source community players, the COMMUNITY license is available free of charge, too. So, lots of options to have a solution for mostly everybody. A license change is a trivial task (just a single command) and does not require any package changes at all. So you can setup your OpenPKG 4 instances (or upgrade from OpenPKG 2/3) and then just enable the VALUE or COMMUNITY license afterwards. 5. we are now busy working on providing a simple online shop where the commercial VALUE licenses (and possibly others) can be purchased. The final price for VALUE is expected to be somewhere in the usual low price segment of shareware and it will be licensed "per kernel per year" (see Thomas' blog entry for more details). > We have a deployment of Openpkg-3 systems across various production > systems. With the change in licensing we need to re-evaluate our > options. In particular, is Openpkg going to continue to be a viable > option for us. I'm sure the new RPM 5 based OpenPKG 4 will continue to be a viable option for you because it is of very high quality (we performed an in-depth 1.5 year testing phase now with nearly 100 beta releases and on deployments directly on a dozen production Unix servers), is based on all the experience and technology of previous versions and will be available both free of charge (for community usage) and at an affordable shareware price (for commercial usage). Also notice that despite the old OpenPKG ENTERPRISE (a full all-in-one commercial product), OpenPKG 4 consists of a commercial OpenPKG framework and Open-Source OpenPKG packages. Only the framework is commercially licensed by the OpenPKG GmbH. The OpenPKG packages are from the non-commercial OpenPKG Foundation e.V. and continue to stay under no restrictions at all and are provided free of charge and this way allow full flexibility to the users and customers. You can deploy any OpenPKG packages into your framework (at least as long as the packages technically work with RPM 5, of course). This organisatorial and licensing split and resulting flexibility was one of the major feedbacks and most often requests of OpenPKG customers over the last 4 years. > You said in your announcement: > Finally, for static installations, a shareware license (VALUE) will be > available for a small fee. > > Is there any indication of what this is likely to be? The final price of the OpenPKG 4 framework is still under evaluation by us, but it definitely will be in the shareware price segment of just about 50-90 EUR. Details are coming soon. > As there are no longer going to be updates for Openpkg-3 we either need > to self-maintain or seek alternatives until this can be determined. Well, in contrast to OpenPKG 3 (ENTERPRISE) the OpenPKG 2 (CURRENT) -- what you are still using -- is fully Open Source and always will be. We even still provide a download for it. So, there is no rush for you. And you also already can easily test-drive OpenPKG 4 until the VALUE license is available, too. A few procedures for you: ---- TEST-DRIVE OPENPKG 4 FROM SCRATCH -------------------------------------- # download latest OpenPKG framework bootstrap sources curl -LO http://openpkg.org/go/download/openpkg.src.sh # bootstrap OpenPKG instance sh openpkg.src.sh \ --prefix=/openpkg --tag=openpkg \ --user=openpkg --group=openpkg sh openpkg-*-openpkg.sh # build and install Apache and Lynx /openpkg/bin/openpkg build \ -D apache::with_mod_ssl apache lynx | sh # start Apache and test with Lynx /openpkg/bin/openpkg rc apache start /openpkg/bin/lynx https://localhost/ # stop Apache and erase OpenPKG instance /openpkg/bin/openpkg rc apache stop /openpkg/bin/openpkg rpm \ -e `/openpkg/bin/openpkg rpm -qa` ---- UPGRADE FROM OPENPKG 2/3 to OPENPKG 4 ---------------------------------- # set prefix of OpenPKG 2/3 instance to upgrade prefix=/openpkg # build and upgrade to the OpenPKG 4 framework # (builds RPM 5 with RPM 4) $prefix/bin/openpkg build \ -r http://download.openpkg.org/stacks/current/source/ openpkg | sh # rebuild RPM database $prefix/bin/openpkg rpm --db-rebuild # remove obsolete package $prefix/bin/openpkg rpm -e openpkg-tools # rebuild and reinstall OpenPKG 4 framework with itself # (builds RPM 5 with RPM 5) $prefix/bin/openpkg build -g -u -q openpkg | sh # rebuild all OpenPKG packages with new RPM 5 based OpenPKG 4 framework rm -rf $prefix/RPM/PKG/* $prefix/bin/openpkg build -ZaKB | sh ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralf S. 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