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Mark Grover commented on BIGTOP-1080:
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Hi Bruno!
Thanks for reviewing this. Here is my intent:
I think it would be nice to be able to run multiple versions of say, pig,
against the same cluster. While this change doesn't achieve that for us on its
own, it's a step in that direction. Alternatives provide a convenient way to
switch over bin scripts.
Also, I see Bigtop as a front runner to being a standard distribution of Hadoop
and the ecosystem. With plans for Hadoop showing up in Fedora 20
(https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Hadoop), I'd personally like Bigtop
(and I am open to feedback) to be more less conflicting and more co-existent
with other distributions. And, like I said before, while this change doesn't do
that completely, it's a change in that direction, where the symlinks for bin
scripts (and if followed by other distributions) would co-exist.
Thanks again! Let me know what you think.
> Change /usr/bin scripts to be alternatives instead of flat files
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> Key: BIGTOP-1080
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BIGTOP-1080
> Project: Bigtop
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Debian, General, RPM
> Affects Versions: 0.7.0
> Reporter: Mark Grover
> Assignee: Mark Grover
> Fix For: 0.7.0
>
> Attachments: BIGTOP-1080.1.patch
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> I think it would be a good idea to convert our /usr/bin scripts to be
> alternatives (i.e. symlinks) instead of flat files just like our
> configuration directories (/etc/component/config). It would make the package
> deployment more flexible for our users.
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