On 01/03/2012 06:30 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
This is a friendly reminder that the following pacakge renames
have happened in all of the Bigtop branches:
hadoop-zookeeper -> zookeeper
hadoop-hbase -> hbase
hadoop-hive -> hive
hadoop-pig -> pig
The puppet code and the test code has been updated, but if you
happen to install packages by hand you should retrain yourself
not to type hadoop- prefix anymore.
Now, while the rename was happening, Peter has made an excellent point
on this JIRA:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BIGTOP-328?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13177854#comment-13177854
So here's a question to you all: what level of backward looking packaging
magic would be desirable to have in Bigtop? On one hand, we're still
pretty young so pretending that nothing happened (and keeping our
package code cleaner) is one option.
Alternatively we can go wild with things like Provides, Replaces, etc.
Thoughts?
Thanks,
Roman.
One other wrinkle is the proposed release of Hadoop 1.0, which based on
0.20.x will be a "newer version" than 0.23.
We definitely need to have a solution for this. Something like
Provides: hadoop-1.0+x
Is hackish, but might work.
Using epoch is another possibility for rpm, but I am generally allergic
to using it. Once you do, you are stuck with it forever.
Cheers,
Peter
