[arch-dev-public] OpenSearch released to Community

[Pierre Schmitz]

Thanks a lot for your work! I already managed to migrate to OpenSearch
without major issues.

I am a little confused about the java dependency. It requires
java-runtime instead of java-runtime-headless as Elasticsearch did.
However on launch I get the following warning: "no-jdk distributions
that do not bundle a JDK are deprecated and will be removed in a
future release".

About Elasticsearch packages: As I understand it, we are not allowed
to distribute anything newer than version 7.10. This version is no
longer supported by upstream, right? So we wont get any (security)
updates. In that case we should rather remvoe these packages and ask
people to migrate to OpenSearch.

Greetings,

Pierre

On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 5:39 PM Justin Kromlinger via arch-dev-public
<arch-dev-public at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> As mentioned in a previous mail [0] I've taken some time to bring the ElasticSearch fork OpenSearch
> to Community [1].
>
> I've also added twelve plugin packages, a package for the Kibana fork OpenSearch Dashboards and
> eight plugin packages for that. Additionally I packaged the opensearch-cli Go binary which
> currently conflicts with the opensearch package. More plugins will follow, but most of them can be
> installed manually as well (f.e. ingest-attachment).
>
> I've tested both opensearch and opensearch-dashboards with my old node data, but some plugins are
> untested because I have no experience with them (primarily the security plugin), so I would be
> happy if someone could test them out.
>
> Please note that opensearch doesn't use the upstream-included JRE and opensearch-dashboards doesn't
> use the upstream-included NodeJS but the ones provided by our repositories. Please keep that in
> mind for any bug reports towards upstream.
>
> This brings up the elastic-question: What should we do with the elasticsearch and kibana packages?
> If we keep them, someone would need to adopt them - I will orphan them since I won't be using
> them anymore. Do we want to update them to their newest version with the new Elastic license? Or
> drop them to the AUR?
>
> If we update them to a newer version the beats packages versions are complicated as well. The 7.X
> versions already need additional configuration in opensearch and versions >=7.13 won't work at all
> [2]. I would recommend new packages for the beats-oss version 7.12.1 or even 7.10.2 as recommended
> by opensearch.
>
> Euch einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr or a Happy New Year,
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>
> [0] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2021-August/030496.html
> [1] https://archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q=opensearch
> [2] https://opensearch.org/docs/latest/clients/agents-and-ingestion-tools/index/
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