Yusaku Sako created AMBARI-2023:
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Summary: Packages that Ambari depends on should be sandboxed to
prevent conflicts/breakage
Key: AMBARI-2023
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMBARI-2023
Project: Ambari
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: agent, build, controller
Affects Versions: 1.2.0
Reporter: Yusaku Sako
Ambari depends on third-party libraries, often with specific versions.
As one specific example, Ambari currently depends on Nagios 1.4.9.
The user can inadvertently do "yum upgrade" of all packages, causing Nagios to
be upgraded, and breaking monitoring functionality of Ambari (as it relies on
the specific version 1.4.9).
That's just one example, but it would be better if such dependencies could be
sandboxed (just like how puppet, facter, etc, are sandboxed) and not interfere
with the user's package management practices.
One way is to rename the package to something like
ambari-[original-package-name]-version, and install such packages under some
Ambari-specific namespace.
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