Allen, > For all intents and purposes, the Debian package sounds just like a > re-packaging of the Apache distribution in .deb form. You're perfectly right. Most Debian packages are "just" a re-packaging of the upstream projects, but with additional management information and logic to ease the installation and make them work well on the plattform and together with other programs. It's the beautiful world of package management: apt-get install hadoop less /usr/share/doc/hadoop/README ... Have fun with hadoop
> > - no version namespace, everything is called just "hadoop", not > > "hadoop-0.18" or "hadoop-0.20" as in the cloudera package > > ... and thus making upgrades really hard and not suitable for anything > "real". Actually my hope is in the plan of hadoop to once establish a stable API (as planned) so that an upgrade will be backwards compatible. As long as that isn't the case, the Debian package is intended only for three audiencens: - People who are willing to deal with any upgrade hassles for the benefit of an official Debian package - People who'd like to try out and learn hadoop with an easily installable package - Me That said, I'm going to use the Debian package on a tiny production cluster of 5 machines. Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro
