Folks,
As a point of note, all tracking details have been updated on the wiki:
I plan on following up with upstream this week re: the message below.
Cheers,
Tim
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From: "Arun C Murthy" <acm(a)hortonworks.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 12:54:11 PM
Subject: Re: Bringing Hadoop to Fedora
Tim,
This is great! I'll take a look at some of these patches, welcome!
Arun
On Jun 11, 2013, at 8:54 AM, Tim St Clair wrote:
> Greetings Hadoop Development Community,
>
> As some of you are aware, we've been looking to bring the upstream 2.X
> series into the Fedora channels. We believe that there are several
> benefits that this can bring to the community:
>
> - Updated & streamlined rpm packaging
> - Deeper level of system integration
> - System managed dependencies (security + defect tracking)
> - Proving ground for OpenJDK7
> - Greater exposure for the community (both adoption and defect tracking)
> ...
>
> During our evaluation (
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Hadoop),
> we've come across some build issues as they relate to Fedora packaging
> guidelines (
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Java). Most of these
> issues (listed below) are very minor dependency changes, and we were
> wondering if there are folks who would be willing to review.
>
> fedora-patch-math:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9594
> fedora-patch-collections:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9610
> fedora-patch-cglib:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9611
> fedora-patch-jersey:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9613
> fedora-patch-jets3t:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9623
> (uber deprecated)
>
> There are other patches we have in the queue but they still need to be
> flushed out, and in an effort to follow the KISS principles we figure this
> would be a good start.
>
> Cheers,
> Tim
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Arun C. Murthy
Hortonworks Inc.
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