If you guys want to spin RPMs for the community, that's great. My main motivation was that I wanted the current version rather than 0.18.3.
There is of course (as Steve points out) a larger discussion about if you want RPMs, what should be in them. In particular, some might want to include the configuration in the RPMs. That's a good reason to post SRPMs, because then it's not so hard to re-roll the RPMs with different configurations. (Personally I wouldn't manage configs with RPM, it's just a pain to propagate changes. Instead, we are looking at using Puppet for general cluster configuration needs, and RPMs for the basic "binaries".) Ian Christophe Bisciglia <christo...@cloudera.com> writes: > Hey Ian, we are totally fine with this - the only reason we didn't > contribute the SPEC file is that it is the output of our internal > build system, and we don't have the bandwidth to properly maintain > multiple RPMs. > > That said, we chatted about this a bit today, and were wondering if > the community would like us to host RPMs for all releases in our > "devel" repository. We can't stand behind these from a reliability > angle the same way we can with our "blessed" RPMs, but it's a > manageable amount of additional work to have our build system spit > those out as well. > > If you'd like us to do this, please add a "me too" to this page: > http://www.getsatisfaction.com/cloudera/topics/should_we_release_host_rpms_for_all_releases > > We could even skip the branding on the "devel" releases :-) > > Cheers, > Christophe > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Ian Soboroff <ian.sobor...@nist.gov> wrote: >> >> I created a JIRA (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-5615) >> with a spec file for building a 0.19.1 RPM. >> >> I like the idea of Cloudera's RPM file very much. In particular, it has >> nifty /etc/init.d scripts and RPM is nice for managing updates. >> However, it's for an older, patched version of Hadoop. >> >> This spec file is actually just Cloudera's, with suitable edits. The >> spec file does not contain an explicit license... if Cloudera have >> strong feelings about it, let me know and I'll pull the JIRA attachment. >> >> The JIRA includes instructions on how to roll the RPMs yourself. I >> would have attached the SRPM but they're too big for JIRA. I can offer >> noarch RPMs build with this spec file if someone wants to host them. >> >> Ian >> >>
