additional source only release tarball
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Key: HADOOP-6597
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6597
Project: Hadoop Common
Issue Type: Wish
Reporter: Thomas Koch
Priority: Trivial
One common annoyance when packaging java applications for a Free Software
distribution is the necessity to repackage the upstream tarball. The
repackaging is necessary, because Debian may only distribute binary files build
from source that's also available from Debian.
So we build the jar/war files ourselfes to make sure there's nothing we don't
have the sources for.
It would take one (annoying and time consuming) step less for packagers, if
java upstream projects would release an additional tarball without any binary
files or third party code.
I'm asking you first, because many other projects (like zookeeper) took or take
hadoop as an example for their build infrastructure.
For your orientation, these are the patterns that I used to filter the hadoop
tarball: (Usable with tar --exclude)
"*.jar",
"uming.*",
"prototype.js",
"config.sub",
"config.guess",
"ltmain.sh",
"Makefile.in",
"configure",
"aclocal.m4",
"config.h.in",
"install-sh",
"autom4te.cache",
"depcomp",
"missing",
"pipes/compile",
"src/contrib/eclipse-plugin/resources/*.jpg",
"src/contrib/eclipse-plugin/resources/*.png",
"src/contrib/eclipse-plugin/resources/*.gif",
"hadoop-0.20.1/src/core/org/apache/hadoop/record/compiler/generated/*.java",
"hadoop-0.20.1/src/docs/cn/build",
"hadoop-0.20.1/c++",
"hadoop-0.20.1/contrib",
"hadoop-0.20.1/lib/native",
"hadoop-0.20.1/librecordio",
"hadoop-0.20.1/src/contrib/thriftfs/gen-*",
"hadoop-0.20.1/docs",
There were different reasons why stuff needed to be filtered:
- unclear license (uming.*)
- unclear origin (images in the eclipse plugin)
- precompiled documentation / code / hadoop binaries
- pregenerated C/C++ automake files
- third party libraries (prototype.js, lib/*.jar)
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