Hi Jordà , > The main issue that prevents the inclusion of the current Cloudera > package into Debian is that it depends on Sun's Java. I think it would > be interesting, at least for an official Debian package, to depend on > OpenJDK in order to make it possible to distribute it in "main" instead > of "contrib". The build-depends line can easily be changed as long as hadoop will build with openjdk. The binary will depend on java5-runtime-headless which is provided by any java runtime. So the user of the package is free to choose either Sun or openjdk.
> Also, note that in order to fit into Debian's package autobuilding > system, some scripts will probably require some tweaking. For instance, > by default Hadoop downloads dependencies at build time using ivy, but > Debian packages should use already existing packages. Incidentally, > Hadoop depends on some libraries that aren't available in Debian yet, > such as xmlenc, so there is even more work to do. The ivy thing will of course be patched out and replaced by the correct classpath entries to /usr/share/java/... I already packaged xmlenc but am waiting for a sponsor. The remaining two dependencies are optional. Please have a look at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HadoopPackagingSpec Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
