Hi Jeremy, The BigTop project:http://bigtop.apache.org/ distributes RPMs for Flume. Also, there are vendors who distribute RPMs, which may or may not correspond to an Apache release though.
Thanks, Hari On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Jeremy Karlson wrote: > Personally, I’d be interested in seeing Flume distributed as an RPM in > addition to the zip file it is now. If I tinkered around with Maven to make > this happen, is there any interest in it? > > Some thoughts: > - install to /opt, but maybe it could be a relocatable RPM without any more > work > - maybe put the config files in /etc/flume, or not (especially if it’s > relocatable) > - maybe create a flume user when the RPM is installed > > Before we get into the never-ending debate about where to install, whether or > not you create the user, etc: Remember that I’m not talking about removing > the existing zip distributions. Those that don’t want it / don’t like it / > fear change can still do whatever they’ve always done. > > -- Jeremy
