Hi Steve, > One thing I've discussed before is the whole notion of having some > hadoop-redist project whose aim is to produce useful > packaging/installation of the artifacts of the main Hadoop projects. you may be interested in project-builder.org. It's a tool to integrate the building of distribution packages in a continuous integration workflow. There has been a presentation at the European Free Software conference FOSDEM:
Continuous Packaging with Project-Builder.org http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2010/fosdem10/ Best regards, Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro