[HADOOP-7521] bintar created tarball should use a common directory for prefix

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: 0.23.0
• Component/s: build

Environment

Java 6, Maven, Linux/Mac

• Assignee: Eric Yang
• Reporter: Eric Yang
• Created: 05/Aug/11 17:29
• Updated: 08/Aug/11 18:18
• Resolved: 08/Aug/11 18:18

Description

The binary tarball contains the directory structure like:

hadoop-common-0.23.0-SNAPSHOT-bin/bin
                                 /etc/hadoop
                                 /libexec
                                 /sbin
                                 /share/hadoop/common

It would be nice to rename the prefix directory to a common directory where it is common to all Hadoop stack software. Therefore, user can untar hbase, hadoop, zookeeper, pig, hive all into the same location and run from the top level directory without manually renaming them to the same directory again.

By default the prefix directory can be /usr. Hence, it could merge with the base OS.

Issue Links

• relates to: HADOOP-7498 Remove legacy TAR layout creation