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Sean Mackrory edited comment on BIGTOP-1080 at 9/23/13 11:27 PM:
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+1 on the intent, but -0 on the implementation. I'd love to see more discussion
around a simple, unified solution to isolating Bigtop's artifacts from other
distributions and deployment methods.
I see where Mark's coming from and I've been concerned about the OS vendor
distributions for some time. In fact, we're seeing some of that right now with
name conflicts with the ideal names for the Avro and Spark packages. Package
names are just one aspect, and I would bet that any other Hadoop distribution
is also going to use /usr/bin/hadoop, /var/log/hadoop, etc. We'll need to do
something like have package a Bigtop prefix for packages names (or make sure
Bigtop repositories have higher priorities than base OS repositories), and
enforce package conflicts for other distributions, or hope that the OS vendors
*also* use alternatives in places where we have not yet.
I think this is a much bigger discussion and this patch is only a partial
solution, so for now I think we should err on the side of simplicity until we
can figure out a longer-term, bigger-picture strategy.
was (Author: mackrorysd):
+1 on the intent, but -0 on the implementation. I'd love to see more
discussion
I see where Mark's coming from and I've been concerned about the OS vendor
distributions for some time. In fact, we're seeing some of that right now with
name conflicts with the ideal names for the Avro and Spark packages. Package
names are just one aspect, and I would bet that any other Hadoop distribution
is also going to use /usr/bin/hadoop, /var/log/hadoop, etc. We'll need to do
something like have package a Bigtop prefix for packages names (or make sure
Bigtop repositories have higher priorities than base OS repositories), and
enforce package conflicts for other distributions, or hope that the OS vendors
*also* use alternatives in places where we have not yet.
I think this is a much bigger discussion and this patch is only a partial
solution, so for now I think we should err on the side of simplicity until we
can figure out a longer-term, bigger-picture strategy.
> 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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