[MAHOUT-1864] Twenty Newsgroups Classification Example fails in case running with MAHOUT_LOCAL=true

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 0.12.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.13.0
• Component/s: classic
• Labels: easyfix easytest newbie
• Assignee: Andrew Palumbo
• Reporter: giriraj sharma
• Created: 27/May/16 07:44
• Updated: 31/Jan/24 22:17
• Resolved: 07/Sep/16 12:08

Description

Twenty Newsgroups Classification Example fails in case running with MAHOUT_LOCAL=true or else when HADOOP_HOME env variable is not set.

Newsgroups lists instructions in order to run this classifier. When running in standalone mode(MAHOUT_LOCAL=true), i.e., running $ ./examples/bin/classify-20newsgroups.sh, the script runs ./examples/bin/set-dfs-commands.sh internally to export hadoop related env variables.

set-dfs-commands.sh attempts to check for hadoop version despite running with MAHOUT_LOCAL set as true. IMHO, the script works fine considering the prerequisites, but, it will as well make sense if we can update the script ./examples/bin/set-dfs-commands.sh to export hadoop env varibales only in case MAHOUT_LOCAL is not set to true.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #236