This may not be directly related but I've noticed Hadoop packages have been not uninstalling/updating well the past year or so. The last couple times I've run fedup, I've had to go back in manually and remove/update a bunch of the Hadoop packages like Zookeeper and Parquet.
On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 4:59 PM, Christopher <ctubb...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > That first post was intended for the Fedora developer list. Apologies for > sending to the wrong list. > > If anybody is curious, it seems the Fedora community support around Hadoop > and Big Data is really dying... the packager for Flume and HTrace has > abandoned their efforts to package for Fedora, and now it looks like the > Hadoop package maintainer abandoned Hadoop, leaving Accumulo with > unsatisfied dependencies. This is actually kind of a sad state of affairs, > because better packaging downstream could really help users, and expose > more ways to improve the upstream products. > > As it stands, I think there is a disconnect between the upstream > communities and the downstream packagers in the Big Data space which > includes Accumulo. I would love to see more interest in better packaging > for downstream users through these existing downstream packager communities > (Homebrew, Fedora, Debian, EPEL, Ubuntu, etc.), and I would love to see > more volunteers come from these downstream communities to make improvements > upstream. > > As an upstream community, I believe the responsibility is for us to reach > down first, rather than wait for them to come to us. I've tried to do that > within Fedora, with the hope that others would follow for the downstream > communities they care about. Unfortunately, things haven't turned out how > I'd have preferred, but I'm still hopeful. If there is anybody interested > in downstream community packaging, let me know if I can help you get > started. > > On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 4:28 PM Christopher <ctubb...@fedoraproject.org> > wrote: > > > Sorry, wrong list. > > > > On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 4:20 PM Christopher <ctubb...@fedoraproject.org> > > wrote: > > > >> So, it would seem at some point, without me noticing (certainly my > fault, > >> for not paying attention enough), the Hadoop packages got orphaned > and/or > >> retired? in Fedora. > >> > >> This is a big problem for me, because the main package I work on is > >> dependent upon Hadoop. > >> > >> What's the state of Hadoop in Fedora these days? Are there packaging > >> problems? Not enough support from upstream Apache community? Missing > >> dependencies in Fedora? Not enough time to work on it? No interest from > >> users? > >> > >> Whatever the issue is... I'd like to help wherever I can... I'd like to > >> keep this stuff going. > >> > > >
