Christophe Bisciglia wrote:
Hey Ian, we are totally fine with this - the only reason we didn't
contribute the SPEC file is that it is the output of our internal
build system, and we don't have the bandwidth to properly maintain
multiple RPMs.
That said, we chatted about this a bit today, and were wondering if
the community would like us to host RPMs for all releases in our
"devel" repository. We can't stand behind these from a reliability
angle the same way we can with our "blessed" RPMs, but it's a
manageable amount of additional work to have our build system spit
those out as well.
I think from your perpective it makes sense as it stops anyone getting
itchy fingers and doing their own RPMs. At the same time, I think we do
need to make it possible/easy to do RPMs *and have them consistent*. If
hadoop-core makes RPMs that don't work with your settings rpms, you get
to field to the support calls.
-steve
