[Fedora-packaging] Packing Hadoop
Fabian Deutsch
fabian.deutsch at gmx.de
Fri Jan 16 20:07:50 UTC 2009
Hello,
I'm quite new to packing up packages for Fedora.
It might not be the simplest package to create, but I quite like hadoop
and wanted to package it up, so it's easier to maintain on Fedora based
boxes.
There are a couple of issues I ran into:
- Can I explicitly require a java package not just to be installed, but
also to be the the selected alternative?
(openjdk ist required at build- and runtime)
- Where to put those jars?
I'm suggesting /usr/share/java
- What about missing dependencies?
There are some jars required which are not packed up in Fedora yet.
I'm not allowed to use the binary-jars distributed in the hadoop
tarball?
- Scripts
There are scripts to run hadoop and dfs (bin/start-all, stop-all, ...)
Where shall I put them? Create a custom user, as postgres does?
Maybe someone can share experience to solve this issues ..
- fabian
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