Yes they are required to extend Oozie for Falcon's use. These patches are committed to trunk version of Oozie, but aren't available on any released version. The build-tools module within Falcon patches Oozie code (3.2.0-incubating) and makes the patched version of Oozie as a dependency for Falcon.
Regards Srikanth Sundarrajan ---------------------------------------- > Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 21:39:53 +0530 > Subject: Re: [VOTE] Release of Apache Falcon v0.3 RC4 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > +1 > > Build works good. Verified checksum > > There are some patch files in package, see if they are needed. > > > On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Srikanth Sundarrajan > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hello, >> As suggested by Chris, Alan & others, I have dropped the binary tar ball >> from the release. >> We will host them once the vote passes for user convenience. >> >> Source tar ball is available at >> http://people.apache.org/~sriksun/falcon-release/0.3-rc4 >> >> The release has been signed through key(D2498DC9): >> http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x90814E84D2498DC9 >> >> Source corresponding to this release can be found at >> >> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=incubator-falcon.git;a=tag;h=refs/tags/v0.3-rc4 >> >> Checksums: >> MD5(falcon-0.3-incubating-sources.tar.gz)= 92bedce87ce2f3959156f9c050638ada >> SHA1(falcon-0.3-incubating-sources.tar.gz)= >> 0acfb200c2bfa60142a163a43f5deeab23ee149c >> >> Vote will close at 10/Aug/2013 9PM IST. >> >> [ ] +1 approve >> [ ] +0 no opinion >> [ ] -1 disapprove (and reason why) >> >> Thanks & Regards >> Srikanth Sundarrajan > > > > > -- > thanks > ashish > > Blog: http://www.ashishpaliwal.com/blog > My Photo Galleries: http://www.pbase.com/ashishpaliwal >
