[IMPALA-6148] Provide mechanism to specify thirdparty dependency as a URL

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: Infrastructure
• Epic Color: ghx-label-5
• Assignee: Philip Martin
• Reporter: Philip Martin
• Created: 02/Nov/17 22:40
• Updated: 29/Nov/17 23:50
• Resolved: 29/Nov/17 23:50

Description

To be able to test Impala with different versions of Hadoop (and other dependencies), it's handy to be able to customize where our dependencies are downloaded. Today, our dependencies (native-toolchain and "Hadoop and friends") are typically downloaded from s3://native-toolchain/. I'm proposing to extend the existing scheme to be able to specify arbitrary URLs as their locations.

This is coming up in the context of testing Impala against newer versions of Hadoop, Hive, Sentry, and HBase.