> Multiple versions of the same package (deb/rpm) can not be installed at the 
> same time.
I dn't think, we'll required to install multiple versions same time. Even this 
can be handled.
Anyway Bigtop will be used to create the RPM's not for deploying the cluster 
with ambari now.

>   I feel hdp-select/bdp-select should belongs to Ambari
>  since it is assuming the convention specific to HDP/BDP/Ambari.
 >  We can easily add packaging for the code under Ambari
 > (as ambari-bdp-select for example) based on the existing stuff under
 > bigtop-packages/*/ambari.

IMO, as components rpm's are build with bigtop, having it in bigtop will be 
perfect choice. As we need to change the spec's.



On 03/07/22, 9:56 AM, "Masatake Iwasaki" <[email protected]> wrote:

    > For example, assuming that the following stack is installed:
    > 
    > /usr/hdp/SOME_VERSION/hadoop/...
    >                      /spark/...
    >                      /zookeeper/...

    Multiple versions of the same package (deb/rpm) can not be installed at the 
same time.
    IIRC, HDP uses convention in which the product version is part of package 
name
    for addressing this. like::

       $ rpm -qi hadoop_2_6_1_0_129
       Name        : hadoop_2_6_1_0_129
       Version     : 2.7.3.2.6.1.0
       ...


    > So if we accept bdp-select, we also have to develop a new feature to
    > change install directories of the packages,
    > keeping the current default for avoiding user-facing incompatibility.
    > Otherwise bdp-select itself is useless.

    I don't like to bring the awkward package name convention to Bigtop
    at least by default.

    I feel hdp-select/bdp-select should belongs to Ambari
    since it is assuming the convention specific to HDP/BDP/Ambari.
    We can easily add packaging for the code under Ambari
    (as ambari-bdp-select for example) based on the existing stuff under
    bigtop-packages/*/ambari.


    Masatake Iwasaki

    On 2022/07/03 7:17, Kengo Seki wrote:
    > Thank you for proposing this, Viraj and Brahma.
    > This proposal may feel sudden to someone, so let me explain some context,
    > mainly to the Bigtop community.
    > 
    > Ambari went to Attic once due to inactivity,
    > but some of its users and developers are reviving it now.
    >  From the Bigtop community, Roman and Evans undertook the role of
    > initial PMC members,
    > and Jun, Yuqi, Ganesh, Masatake, and I are also going to support it.
    > 
    > The default stack of Ambari was HDP, but it has gone behind paywall,
    > so we have to add an alternative stack in the next release of Ambari.
    > Viraj and Brahma are planning to leverage Bigtop packages for that 
purpose,
    > and that stack is tentatively named BDP (BigData Platform).
    > 
    > We would also like to take over a feature called hdp-select,
    > which enables users to switch the current stack easily with symlink.
    > For example, assuming that the following stack is installed:
    > 
    > /usr/hdp/SOME_VERSION/hadoop/...
    >                       /spark/...
    >                       /zookeeper/...
    > 
    > /etc/hadoop, /var/lib/hadoop, /usr/lib/hadoop are symlinks of
    > /usr/hdp/SOME_VERSION/hadoop/etc, /usr/hdp/SOME_VERSION/hadoop/var/lib,
    > /usr/hdp/SOME_VERSION/hadoop/usr/lib respectively.
    > 
    > Then the new stack is installed under /usr/hdp/NEW_VERSION,
    > users can run hdp-select to switch the symlinks to the new directories
    > for upgrading the stack.
    > (Is my understanding correct? Correct me if I'm wrong, Viraj and Brahma)
    > 
    > hdp-select was provided as a RPM/DEB package just like other packages
    > HDP provided,
    > so it is user-friendly to provide bdp-select (the BDP version of
    > hdp-select) as well.
    > This is the background of Viraj's proposal.
    > 
    > But there is a problem here to leverage Bigtop packages in this manner.
    > Bigtop respects Linux's Filesystem Hierarchy Standard,
    > so it doesn't install files into a single place (/usr/hdp/VERSION in
    > the example above),
    > but directly into /etc, /usr, /var and so on.
    > So if we accept bdp-select, we also have to develop a new feature to
    > change install directories of the packages,
    > keeping the current default for avoiding user-facing incompatibility.
    > Otherwise bdp-select itself is useless.
    > But it will be a tough work, because installation paths are hard-coded
    > in the RPM specs and DEB packaging scripts now.
    > 
    > Based on the above, how about creating a new branch for adding hdp-select
    > and developing the feature to switch installation paths?
    > After finishing the work on that branch and ensuring that it works 
expectedly,
    > we can merge it into master, I think.
    > 
    > Kengo Seki <[email protected]>
    > 
    > On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 4:21 PM Battula, Brahma Reddy
    > <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>
    >> Thanks @Viraj Jasani to start discussing on this.
    >>
    >> IMO, For upcoming ambari release(2.7.7) , we should have select other 
than HDP so that people can start using the ambari without HDP.
    >>
    >> I am +1(non-binding) on this approach to have selects in bigtop code. 
May be for long term , we can think for tarballs or mpacks which can go in 
mabari trunk.
    >>
    >>
    >> On 29/06/22, 10:22 AM, "Viraj Jasani" <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>
    >>      Hi Ambari/Bigtop dev,
    >>
    >>      As per the new roadmap of Apache Ambari, we would like to propose 
moving
    >>      certain scripts (previously known as hdp-select and conf-select) to 
Bigtop
    >>      so that their rpm installation could be managed independently.
    >>      These scripts are a basic necessity in the Ambari framework for the
    >>      installation of various Bigdata packages. The only major changes 
they would
    >>      receive is when we onboard new services and components to Ambari, 
else they
    >>      usually do not receive updates. In the past, we used to get 
hdp-select rpm
    >>      downloaded and installed from HDP repositories.
    >>
    >>      We have still not officially finalized the new replacement name for
    >>      hdp-select, it would likely be bdp-select (bdp: BigData Platform). 
However,
    >>      the purpose of bdp-select and conf-select remains the same.
    >>

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