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Yoram Arnon commented on HADOOP-232:
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debugging the hadoop distcp command required it.
the command is executed by the dfs client, which is in this case a map task.
the class is part of the hadoop release however, so it already resided on the 
tasktracker's nodes. We wanted to actually override it using a newly sent jar, 
without upgrading and restarting the map-reduce cluster.
we saw that as a general enough case to warrant a change to the task tracker.

I guess that an alternate solution would be to unbundle the 'external' programs 
from the main jar file.


> jar files sent to task tracker should override existing jar
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
>          Key: HADOOP-232
>          URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-232
>      Project: Hadoop
>         Type: Bug

>   Components: mapred
>     Reporter: Yoram Arnon
>     Assignee: Milind Bhandarkar
>     Priority: Minor
>  Attachments: hadoop-232.patch
>
> jar files sent to task tracker are appended to list, rather than prepended to 
> it.
> this results in the original jar getting executed, although a new one was 
> sent  - not the intent.

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