[HIVE-10041] Set defaults for HBASE_HOME in a smarter way

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.1.0
• Component/s: HCatalog
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Mark Grover
• Created: 20/Mar/15 22:35
• Updated: 21/Oct/22 07:20

Description

Similar to SQOOP-2145, hcat binary script doesn't do smart detection of HBASE_HOME. It assumes it's always located in /usr/lib/hbase and if not HBASE_HOME variable needs to be exported. The reason is often times people have tarballs like ~/hive-hcatalog, ~/hbase, etc. and it would be good to have their hcat scripts work out of the book.

This doesn't regress anything because it only sets the HBASE_HOME if it's not already set and the directory it's setting it to exists and is valid.