[HDFS-2303] Unbundle jsvc

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.23.0, 2.0.0-alpha
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0-alpha
• Component/s: build, scripts
• Hadoop Flags: Incompatible change, Reviewed
• Release Note: To run secure Datanodes users must install jsvc for their platform and set JSVC_HOME to point to the location of jsvc in their environment.
• Assignee: Mingjie Lai
• Reporter: Roman Shaposhnik
• Created: 31/Aug/11 02:00
• Updated: 28/Sep/15 20:58
• Resolved: 13/Mar/12 03:42

Description

It would be nice to recompile jsvc as part of the native profile. This has a number of benefits including an ability to re-generate all binary artifacts, etc. Most of all, however, it will provide a way to generate jsvc on Linux distributions that don't have matching libc

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: HDFS-2962 jsvc needs to be removed from hdfs packaging
• is related to: HADOOP-8132 64bit secure datanodes do not start as the jsvc path is wrong
• is related to: HDFS-4519 Support override of jsvc binary and log file locations when launching secure datanode.
• relates to: HADOOP-8133 upgrade commons-daemon.version in hadoop-project/pom.xml from 1.0.3 to 1.0.5 to avoid jsvc / libcap.so linking problem
• relates to: HDFS-2962 jsvc needs to be removed from hdfs packaging
• supercedes: HADOOP-8133 upgrade commons-daemon.version in hadoop-project/pom.xml from 1.0.3 to 1.0.5 to avoid jsvc / libcap.so linking problem