On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 07:54:24AM +0200, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: > On Wed, Sep 13, 2006, Adam D. Morley wrote: > [snip] > > Could it be done, or would > > this be something that the community would have to pay for? > > It certainly _is_ doable. Either by doing the RPM 4.4 upgrade (which we > need sometime in the future anyway and which I would recommend to do) or > by hacking in support for FTP-via-HTTP proxying into RPM 4.2 (which I do > not really recommend, but which could be an acceptable hack). > > But you already got it, Adam: both are larger and rather thankless tasks > which certainly will never be done by anybody of the community in their > private freetime -- or else it would have already been done, as the > issue is a well known one since a longer time. But that doesn't mean the > issue never can be resolved for OpenPKG: one can order the Development > Services of the OpenPKG GmbH (see http://www.openpkg.com/services/) and > let this issue be resolved for a fee. The RPM 4.4 upgrade I expect to > require about 5-10 man-days, the RPM 4.2 proxy hack I expect to require > about 4-6 man-days.
Ok. How much does a man-day cost; ie: how much would the community have to raise? Or, as a corollary, how much does OpenPKG.org need to "live" and how many registered users are there? Ie: can we determine a per-system cost based on # systems/user via cost / ( # users * avg # boxes ) so we community members know how much we "should" donate? In OpenBSD land, we buy CDs, t-shirts, etc. And then occasionally need to shell out some change for a new array or new server. I don't know (I haven't looked too hard though) for how much one should expect to pay out for the wonder that is OpenPKG. . . Thanks! -- adam ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List openpkg-users@openpkg.org
