[HIVE-2061] Create a hive_contrib.jar symlink to hive-contrib-{version}.jar for backward compatibility

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.8.0
• Component/s: Build Infrastructure
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Ning Zhang
• Reporter: Ning Zhang
• Created: 18/Mar/11 05:26
• Updated: 16/Dec/11 23:55
• Resolved: 05/Apr/11 21:44

Description

We have seen a use case where in the user's script, it run 'add jar hive_contrib.jar'. Since Hive has moved the jar file to be hive-contrib-

{version}

.jar, it introduced backward incompatibility. If we as the user to change the script and when Hive upgrade version again, the user need to change the script again. Creating a symlink seems to be the best solution.