[jira] [Commented] (HBASE-3465) Hbase should use a HADOOP_HOME environment variable if available.

["Joern Kottmann (Commented) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Joern Kottmann commented on HBASE-3465:
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Looks like the Hadoop conf dir is now before the Hbase conf dir on the classpath in case the HADOOP_HOME variable is set.

Isn't that problematic for configuration files which exist in the Hadoop and Hbase conf directory?

Such as:
hadoop-metrics.properties
log4j.properties

In the case HADOOP_HOME is set the files from Hadoop are used instead, which might be confusing.
                
> Hbase should use a HADOOP_HOME environment variable if available.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-3465
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-3465
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 0.90.0
>            Reporter: Ted Dunning
>            Assignee: Alejandro Abdelnur
>             Fix For: 0.92.0
>
>         Attachments: a1-HBASE-3465.patch
>
>
> I have been burned a few times lately while developing code by having the make sure that the hadoop jar in hbase/lib is exactly correct.  In my own deployment, there are actually 3 jars and a native library to keep in sync that hbase shouldn't have to know about explicitly.  A similar problem arises when using stock hbase with CDH3 because of the security patches changing the wire protocol.
> All of these problems could be avoided by not assuming that the hadoop library is in the local directory.  Moreover, I think it might be possible to assemble the distribution such that the compile time hadoop dependency is in a cognate directory to lib and is referenced using a default value for HADOOP_HOME.
> Does anybody have any violent antipathies to such a change?

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