Is it time to remove the existing Big Data packages from Fedora?

[Javi Roman]

The more "simple" option is again a Fedora big data software
collection (with multiple versions of libraries - for
Java/Scala/Clojure) for populate the docker image.
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Javi Roman


On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 6:46 PM, Gerald Henriksen <ghenriks at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Jul 2015 16:09:56 +0100, you wrote:
>
>>On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 3:27 PM, Gerald Henriksen <ghenriks at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> So the discussion about Spark has revealed:
>>>
>>> 1) the Big Data community doesn't trust the Fedora packages
>>>
>>> 2) it seems a consensus that the realities of the Big Data ecosystem
>>> don't work very well with making packages for Fedora
>>>
>>> 3) result of 2, move towards newer (Docker) style of making Big Data
>>> available on Fedora, perhaps with a side benefit of it then also being
>>> possible to have it available on RHEL.
>>
>>Where does the contents of the docker images come from? There are
>>plans for layered images in Fedora but ultimately the content of said
>>images still comes from rpm content in Fedora.
>
> But the whole point of going to docker images was the reality that
> Hadoop and company are basically unpackageable in Fedora.
>
> If the docker images need Hadoop and its ecosytem to be packaged up
> into official rpm packages, then there won't be any Fedora Big Data
> docker images.
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