[jira] [Updated] (BIGTOP-39) Include Apache Avro in Bigtop

["Sean Mackrory (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BIGTOP-39?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Sean Mackrory updated BIGTOP-39:
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    Attachment: 0001-Avro-packaging.patch

Like Bruno's attachment, this is *not* something I want to propose for a commit just yet. It has some known flaws but I think it's a good starting point to packaging Avro. Some points to consider:

* Fedora already has a package named "avro", so I think we should avoid using that name. On a similar note, should we generally isolate our package namespace from that of the distribution? I don't want to prefix everything with "bigtop-" but it seems that as Linux distributions ship their own Hadoop packages (that may or may not be based on Bigtop's), we're going to eventually have some collisions...

* I've done very basic testing that this installs "avro-tools" for use on the command-line.

* I've also included all the other JARs and other language libraries. Which bindings do we want to include? Another JIRA recently requested including avro-mapred in Hadoop's classpath, and it was suggested maybe it's time we packaged Avro. Without harmonizing the Avro version across components, it seems like this isn't the solution either... Thoughts?

* The paranemer maven plugin was being troublesome and I"m not very familiar with it. I just disabled it with a patch for now. One of the things I intend to fix before seriously submitting this for review...

* The C/C++ libraries are also troublesome in that they require a newer version of CMake than some of our supported distributions have, and there's /usr/local is affected by some Debian packaging policies that I'm not yet familiar with.
                
> Include Apache Avro in Bigtop
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>                 Key: BIGTOP-39
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BIGTOP-39
>             Project: Bigtop
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: Debian, RPM
>            Reporter: Jeff Hammerbacher
>            Assignee: Peter Linnell
>         Attachments: 0001-Avro-packaging.patch, avro.spec
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