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Peter Linnell commented on BIGTOP-1422:
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There is probably less complexity to just dump a tarball with a layout like
parcel. There is a value for some customers, although when I put my admin hat
on, not giving Hadoop admins permission for using the native packages is more
political than technical. I mean if you use CM, you already have root or sudo.
Privileged user managers/auditors are a well known tool and used by security
concious companies. For example, two of my big customers - one in health care,
the other a financial company use this company wide for both Linux and Windows.
So, the "no Hadoop admins can install native packages" is a weak argument for
me.
> Introduce Universal Packaging System for Hadoop distribution
> ------------------------------------------------------------
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> Key: BIGTOP-1422
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BIGTOP-1422
> Project: Bigtop
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: build, deployment
> Affects Versions: 0.8.0
> Reporter: Konstantin Boudnik
> Priority: Blocker
> Fix For: 1.0.0
>
>
> Looks like the time comes where Bigtop needs to step up and champion new
> revolutionary format for packaging of the Hadoop.
> New UPS provides completely relocatable archive-like media of distribution
> for the content and the services alike. Preparation of an UPS deliverables
> shouldn't require any special development tools nor particular SDL: only
> cross-platform archives and widely available command-line interpreters would
> be a per-requisite for the creation and installation.
> In our opinion, the separation of the services and content of the
> applications, e.g. .deb and .rpm, are an outdated paradigm, which complicates
> the deployment processes, upgrades, and overall system orchestration.
> Architectural proposal will follow shortly.
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