[jira] Commented: (HADOOP-6255) Create an rpm integration project

["Konstantin Boudnik (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Konstantin Boudnik commented on HADOOP-6255:
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It seems like people here are fond of having a separate project from the Hadoop itself. While it seems like good idea I can see slight different approach. Here it is:

- native packaging specs (DEBs, RPMs, whatnot) are placed within the current build systems i.e. under {{$project.root/packaging/specs}}
- existing {{build.xml}} is extended with an extra target {{create-packages}} depends on perhaps {{tar}}
- an execution of 
  {{ant create-packages -Dpackage.type=RPM|DEB -Dpackage.arch=noarch|x32|x64|ARM}} 
  will exec a package creation script from {{$project.root/packaging/scripts}} using spec specified by {{package.type}}
- similarly, test packages can be produced by
  {{ant create-packages -Dpackage.type=RPM|DEB -Dpackage.class=test}}

IMO this approach should allow for reuse of some of existing build functionality without adding any extra hassle to the current build system. Besides, the packaging will be kept as a part of the project itself however will be physically separated from the build system.

Any dependencies resolvable as packages of certain type needs to be listed as external dependencies. Non-resolvable (like Avro above) will have to be included.

bq. We also need to separate the client from the server rpms
+1 on this one.


> Create an rpm integration project
> ---------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-6255
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6255
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: Owen O'Malley
>
> We should be able to create RPMs for Hadoop releases.

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