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Milind Bhandarkar commented on HADOOP-7521:
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FWIW, here is a definition of "tarbomb" from wikipedia:
A tarbomb is derogatory hacker slang used to refer to a tarball that does not
follow the usual conventions, i.e. it contains many files that extract into the
working directory. Such a tarball can create problems by overwriting files of
the same name in the working directory, or mixing one project's files into
another. It is almost always an inconvenience to the user, who is obliged to
identify and delete a number of files scattered throughout the directory's
contents. Such behavior is considered bad etiquette on the part of the
archive's creator.
> bintar created tarball should use a common directory for prefix
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> Key: HADOOP-7521
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-7521
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: build
> Affects Versions: 0.23.0
> Environment: Java 6, Maven, Linux/Mac
> Reporter: Eric Yang
> Assignee: Eric Yang
> Attachments: HADOOP-7521.patch
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> The binary tarball contains the directory structure like:
> {noformat}
> hadoop-common-0.23.0-SNAPSHOT-bin/bin
> /etc/hadoop
> /libexec
> /sbin
> /share/hadoop/common
> {noformat}
> It would be nice to rename the prefix directory to a common directory where
> it is common to all Hadoop stack software. Therefore, user can untar hbase,
> hadoop, zookeeper, pig, hive all into the same location and run from the top
> level directory without manually renaming them to the same directory again.
> By default the prefix directory can be /usr. Hence, it could merge with the
> base OS.
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