[BIGTOP-1142] Create wiki page comparing FHS guidelines with the bigtop packaging results

• Type: Task
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.7.0
• Fix Version/s: backlog
• Component/s: documentation
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: jay vyas
• Created: 07/Nov/13 14:56
• Updated: 26/Mar/14 22:03

Description

The bigtop specs and packaging results should be compared with the FHS guidelines http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/ , to confirm that everything is correct.

1) For example, it would be nice to confirm that the executables in bigtop were all in "/usr/bin/" and not "/usr/lib/...", etc...

2) Also, if possible, it would be nice if the effort that the fedora community is putting into packaging hadoop could be merged/synergistic with the efforts of the folks at bigtop.

So, this JIRA is to create a first pass of a document/wiki page which documents the bigtop packaging strategy at a high level and compares it with other hadoop packaging efforts, with specific notes about how bigtop's broader packaging infrastructure diverges from that for a traditional OS.