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  

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