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Do you or does your team work with documents that evolve over time? Then you know how troublesome it is to locate a certain version, identify the latest version, find the predecessor of a version and manage diverging variants. It’s time to think about some basics. No longer find various notations of date and time information in filenames. No headaches on deciding whether the successor of 1.9 is 1.10 or 2.0. No need for version control software. Just obey some simple yet powerful rules.
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Upgrade procedure from OSS framework, e.g. last 2.x release openpkg-20071227-20071227 to OpenPKG 4.0 shareware framework. Also applies when upgrading from the obsolete commercial 3.x (=E.x aka Enterprise) product. (more…)

The new OpenPKG 4.0 framework is a shareware product. Here is an explanation of the licenses available today. Most of them are free of charge, one can be purchased from the OpenPKG GmbH online shop. (more…)

The new OpenPKG 4.0 shareware framework has arrived. Download openpkg-4.0.0-20100101 now. The OpenPKG 4.0 release is the bridge from previous RPM4-based frameworks to the new RPM5-based framework and is key for a smooth upgrade. (more…)

This has been posted to the “openpkg announce” mailing list on 2009-12-07 (more…)

I tried Drupal “search_files” module titled “6.x-1.x-dev 2009-Feb-05 Development snapshot”. While cycling once through a typical use case of adding, indexing, removing and unindexing I missed some features and found some bugs. Here are the issue descriptions including enhancements and bug fixes (more…)

If a RPM5-based OpenPKG 4.x Framework suddenly stops working your run-time license might have expired. To remedy the problem you must acquire a valid license. (more…)

Dear Friends! 2008-02-19 was a special day in the history of lotterer.net messaging. For the first time in history I decided to leverage a spam filter to defeat all the crap coming into my mailbox. I always disliked the approach of anti-spam solutions tagging messages for manual review. My approach is far more aggressive and puts the sender in charge of sending proper messages. (more…)

After using 3rd party tools to improve reply and signature handling in Novell Groupwise, I recently gave vanilla GW702 a try. The signature had a horrible empty line in it and here is how to remove it. (more…)

You may know that OpenPKG makes it easy to create a custom software stack for any Unix from source. The included tools also allow easy reuse of the binaries created during the build process, enabling users to run setups using one build host for each platform, then distributing the binaries across a large number of compatible machines. (more…)

Recently I was evaluating Berkeley DB usability when multiple unrelated processes try to write to the same database. My early attempts to create a small working example code failed badly and I was unsure whether the multiple writer approach is something that isn’t supposed to work at all or if there was a bug in the DB or in my exploration code. Issue resolved now. (more…)

Lessons learned from attempting to create a pure 64bit OpenPKG instance on a system made from mixed 32bit/64bit parts. OpenPKG builds and runs fine in any “pure” environment where parts are either all 32bit or all 64bit. Problems and limitations arise from any attempt to mix 32/64. (more…)

OpenPKG development has been shrunken to CURRENT. Here is how I recently switched a lot of instances running releases and snapshots version to CURRENT. (more…)

2007-Jun-22 10:54:02 UTC – one of the most mature, widespread, beloved and best maintained applications from the OpenPKG software distribution, the Apache 1 Web server, has been dispunged from the repository. Check-in 35737 heralds a new world order where Apache 1 is ultimately replaced by it’s designated successor, the Apache 2 HTTP Server. A minute of silence in commemoration for the passing Apache 1.3.37, please. (more…)

I fought a battle with Novell GroupWise 7.01 Client on WinXP, causing error code C045 for no obvious reason. Multiple times a day. For months. Mostly without noticeable effect, sometimes with client lockup after pressing OK. Finally, a hint from Jürgen Dischner helped me resolving the issue. (more…)

When I installed my SLES10 I had to install it on EVMS to enable testing of NSS. This weekend it was time to reboot the machine after a kernel update. However, a dreadful message appeared on my screen “Waiting for device /dev/evms/lvm2/system/root to appear: … not found” – All filesystems gone! (more…)

Migrating the configuration is a manual task. The commands below aid you finding out what has been configured. (more…)

Run this shell code snippet as OpenPKG management user to obtain another shell script that downloads, builds and installs the latest packages from the appropriate repository. The packages and options are taken from the management users` instance. (more…)

Run this shell code snippet as OpenPKG management user to obtain a command that builds a OpenPKG binary bootstrap clone from source. (more…)

Run this shell code snippet as root user to open a screen for every OpenPKG instance and switch to the appropriate management user. (more…)