[HADOOP-4916] adjust build.xml to reference external properties when building the "init.d" for the rpm

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.20.0

Environment

Redhat 5.1, Java 6

• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Eric Yang
• Reporter: Eric Yang
• Created: 18/Dec/08 21:49
• Updated: 08/Jul/09 16:40
• Resolved: 08/Jan/09 08:51

Description

Instead of having the properties embedded in the build.xml directly, allow them to be configured in a properties file that
can override the defaults in build.xml that way we can check in a local build.properties file and have the defaults.properties pulls
from Apache SVN.