[BIGTOP-811] Add /var/lib/bigtop as a location to install SQL connectors and other plug-ins

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.7.0
• Assignee: Sean Mackrory
• Reporter: Sean Mackrory
• Created: 17/Dec/12 15:01
• Updated: 04/Nov/13 21:24
• Resolved: 12/Jul/13 21:03

Description

For components that require the installation of additional artifacts that Bigtop cannot distribute (due to license incompatability or other issues), Bigtop should provide both a standardized location to which the artifacts can be installed, and the ability to auto-detect the locations to which they may already be installed.

Specifically, Sqoop and Hive (and possibly other components) require the installation of the MySQL-Java connector when using MySQL for imports, exports, or metadata storage. This needs to be done by copying the JAR to a directory that is already in the classpath for those components (such as /usr/lib/sqoop/lib and /usr/lib/hive/lib). Some repositories distribute packages that install the jar to /usr/share/java.

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: BIGTOP-887 Sqoop 2 should be consistent with Oozie / Bigtop for server plugins directory
• is related to: BIGTOP-939 Make usage of bigtop-tomcat more dynamic