Bintray down - Is there a change to another repository?

northy · April 12, 2021, 3:38pm

I’m currently unable to install some addons for OpenHAB because of a (scheduled) outage of bintray right now, to remind their users that bintray will stop working soon. It will last until 2PM Pacific Daylight Time today according to their status page: https://status.bintray.com/

As bintray will stop working as of may 2021 (according to Service End for Bintray, JCenter, GoCenter, and ChartCenter | JFrog), my question is, should the repository be changed to something else?
I looked at the current documentation for OpenHAB 3 and the apt repositories listed there are bintray.

Thanks and best regards!

hmerk · April 12, 2021, 4:18pm

We are working on alternatives.

northy · April 12, 2021, 4:21pm

ok, thanks for the reply. I thought that maye I missed something. I’ll recheck the documentation for updates before may in that case!

ysc · April 12, 2021, 5:10pm

If you want to follow the discussion:

github.com/openhab/openhab-distro

Move away from Bintray

opened 04:36PM - 06 Feb 21 UTC

closed 07:56PM - 16 May 21 UTC

kaikreuzer

Bintray is about to be closed: https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jc…enter-gocenter-and-chartcenter/ We will therefore need to remove any links to Bintray and find a suitable substitution. The simplest option atm seems to be the move to Artifactory (openhab.jfrog.io) - the risk here is though that it is operated by the same company as Bintray, so we might be warned that this could turn out to be a fragile option as well. Since we have all our snapshot and milestone artifacts there already. I'd nonetheless suggest to go this way. It might be a worthwhile effort to check whether we can set up a [CNAME DNS entry](https://jfrog.com/knowledge-base/how-to-configure-custom-cname-for-artifactory-cloud/), so that we would at least be under control of the DNS name and could point it to somewhere else in case the free JFrog Artifactory is ended some day. A better option for releases would be to directly publish them to Maven Central - I am not sure how easy and stable we could get that into our release build jobs. This issue is meant as an aggregate to track the efforts that are needed. - [X] Change "update" script in distro - #1271 - [x] Change website download location - [x] Remove mentions of Bintray from documentation/website - [x] Change "distributionManagement" section in all pom-xmls - [x] Adapt build plans - [x] Adapt Docker build/containers (https://github.com/openhab/openhab-docker/pull/356) - [x] inform users to change download locations e.g. in their linux distributions (apt/rpm) - [x] Change openhab-osgiify to not require artifacts from Bintray - [x] Change artifactory to not include Bintray locations anymore

kriznik · May 1, 2021, 7:20pm

is there any solution yet?
i’ve just tried 2.5.12 docker and it’s not working as any binding and anything can be installed at all …

?

christoph_wempe · May 1, 2021, 7:33pm

It looks like there will be no fix for 2.5.x.

Wolfgang_S · May 2, 2021, 2:22pm

Check this thread Docker 2.5.12 [ERROR] [core.karaf.internal.FeatureInstaller] - Failed installing if it helps.

kriznik · May 2, 2021, 9:11pm

thanks, but i’ve migrated my prod OH2x to OH3x ytd night.
Had planned it for some time, this just speeded things up.

robaer · May 3, 2021, 12:29pm

Did you try to download the kar archive from Download openHAB | openHAB and place them into the addons folder? This should work.

mapled · May 10, 2021, 9:46pm

Tried it. Worked for me. I guess more people will eventually run into this. It seems to be time to move to OH3
Thanks for the help.

robaer · May 11, 2021, 9:30am

Same for me. I’m just switching my legacy binings, and wait until 3.1 is released.