rowsimilarityjob doesn't clean it's temp dir, and fails when seeing it again
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                 Key: MAHOUT-834
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-834
             Project: Mahout
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Integration
            Reporter: Dan Brickley
            Priority: Minor


If I do this:

mahout rowsimilarity --input matrixified/matrix --output sims/ 
--numberOfColumns 27684 --similarityClassname SIMILARITY_LOGLIKELIHOOD 
--excludeSelfSimilarity

then clean my output and rerun,

rm -rf sims/ # (though this step doesn't even seem needed)

then try again:

mahout rowsimilarity --input matrixified/matrix --output sims/ 
--numberOfColumns 27684 --similarityClassname SIMILARITY_LOGLIKELIHOOD 
--excludeSelfSimilarity

The temp files left from the first run make a re-run impossible - we get: 
"Exception in thread "main" 
org.apache.hadoop.mapred.FileAlreadyExistsException: Output directory 
temp/weights already exists".

Manually deleting the temp directory fixes this.

I get same behaviour if I explicitly pass in a --tempdir path, e.g.:

mahout rowsimilarity --input matrixified/matrix --output sims/ 
--numberOfColumns 27684 --similarityClassname SIMILARITY_LOGLIKELIHOOD 
--excludeSelfSimilarity --tempDir tmp2/

Presumably something like HadoopUtil.delete(getConf(),tempDirPath) is needed 
somewhere?  (and maybe --overwrite too ?)



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