Checking the latest hadoop trunk and trying to build the release tarball using: mvn package -Pdist -Dtar -DskipTests
It hangs up, with the following log messages: [INFO] Copying files to /home/ahmed/apache/hadoop/hadoop-common/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/target/hadoop-hdfs-0.24.0-SNAPSHOT [WARNING] Assembly file: /home/ahmed/apache/hadoop/hadoop-common/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/target/hadoop-hdfs-0.24.0-SNAPSHOT is not a regular file (it may be a directory). It cannot be attached to the project build for installation or deployment. [INFO] [INFO] --- maven-jar-plugin:2.3.1:jar (default-jar) @ hadoop-hdfs --- [INFO] [INFO] --- maven-javadoc-plugin:2.7:jar (module-javadocs) @ hadoop-hdfs --- -- Ahmed
