I'd say Fedora needs to deal with it on their end, considering that they are coming into this post-Bigtop. Thoughts?
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:43AM, Sean Mackrory wrote: > I've been worried about this for a while, and I think we need to come up > with a strategy for dealing with it in Bigtop. In this case, it's just a > coincidence that two separate projects are named Spark. However I recently > submitted a patch for packaging Avro as a separate component in Bigtop and > had to deal with the fact that a minority of the systems we support already > packaged part of Avro in a package named 'avro', so I had to use > 'avro-libs', 'avro-tools' and 'avro-doc'. Fedora's also going to start > releasing packages for Hadoop, so this problem of name conflicts is only > going to get worse. > > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Konstantin Boudnik <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Let's call it spark-asf, perhaps? > > > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 09:57AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > While testing Spark as part of the Bigtop I've come > > > across the following conflict on Debian-based systems: > > > > > > $ apt-cache show spark > > > Package: spark > > > Priority: optional > > > Section: universe/devel > > > Description-en: SPARK programming language toolset > > > SPARK is a formally-defined computer programming language based on the > > > Ada programming language, intended to be secure and to support the > > > development of high integrity software used in applications and systems > > > where predictable and highly reliable operation is essential either for > > > reasons of safety or for business integrity. > > > . > > > This package contains the tools necessary for checking if programs > > adhere > > > to the SPARK rules and the tools to show freedom of runtime exceptions > > in > > > those programs. To compile SPARK programs use any standards-compliant > > Ada > > > compiler, such as GNAT. > > > Homepage: http://libre.adacore.com/libre/tools/spark-gpl-edition/ > > > > > > > > > This has an obvious ramifications for Bigtop packaging, but > > > it may also have ramifications for PODLINGNAMESEARCH > > > for Apache Spark (incubating). > > > > > > Speaking of which -- has anybody else started PODLINGNAMESEARCH > > > already? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Roman. > >
