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Sean Mackrory commented on BIGTOP-1142:
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Like Roman, I would support this generally. I tried running the LSB compliance
tests a while ago and did not find any serious issues - but then they are more
targeted at native applications than a JVM distribution like ours. I think even
though there may be times when the Bigtop community opts to depart from other
conventions, it's at least good to know about and document that.
>> executables in bigtop were all in "/usr/bin/" and not "/usr/lib/..."
Yeah I can tell you right now that's not the case :) Generally the unmodified
executable scripts from the independent projects get placed in
/usr/lib/<component>/bin and /usr/lib/<component> begins to look a lot like the
contents of the tarball releases. /usr/bin then contains Bigtop's wrapper
scripts that set up the environment and provide a certain amount of integration
between the packages.
> Create wiki page comparing FHS guidelines with the bigtop packaging results
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> Key: BIGTOP-1142
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BIGTOP-1142
> Project: Bigtop
> Issue Type: Task
> Reporter: jay vyas
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> The bigtop specs and packaging results should be compared with the FHS
> guidelines http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/ , to
> confirm that everything is correct.
> 1) For example, it would be nice to confirm that the executables in bigtop
> were all in "/usr/bin/" and not "/usr/lib/...", etc...
> 2) Also, if possible, it would be nice if the effort that the fedora
> community is putting into packaging hadoop could be merged/synergistic with
> the efforts of the folks at bigtop.
> So, this JIRA is to create a first pass of a document/wiki page which
> documents the bigtop packaging strategy at a high level and compares it with
> other hadoop packaging efforts, with specific notes about how bigtop's
> broader packaging infrastructure diverges from that for a traditional OS.
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