[OOZIE-911] Decouple Oozie configuration from the binaries

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: 3.2.0
• Component/s: scripts
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Romain Rigaux
• Created: 16/Jul/12 17:16
• Updated: 25/Oct/12 19:40
• Resolved: 25/Oct/12 19:40

Description

Hadoop has a HADOOP_CONF_DIR which allows to have separate binaries and configuration.

Oozie does not have this separation and has the start script source oozie-env.sh and some other ones.

It would be nice to have something like a OOZIE_CONF_DIR which would enable to reuse an existing Oozie installation and just switch the catalina/logs/db...

The only current alternative is to download a separate Oozie which is cumbersome as it would be more simple to just reuse the current installed Oozie.