[PIG-1707] Allow pig build to pull from alternate maven repo to enable building against newer hadoop versions

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.8.0, 0.9.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.8.0, 0.9.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed

Release Note

To run against a maven repo of the form http://myrepo.org/maven to use a hadoop version of the form 0.20.myversion the ant commandline is:

ant -Dmvnrepo=http://myrepo.org/maven -Dhadoop-core.version=0.20.myversion -Dhadoop-test.version=0.20.myversion

• Assignee: Pradeep Kamath
• Reporter: Pradeep Kamath
• Created: 02/Nov/10 19:05
• Updated: 17/Dec/10 22:46
• Resolved: 03/Nov/10 20:59

Description

Currently pig build only pulls jar from http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/ for the dependencies. THis restricts the build to only released hadoop versions (and other dependencies). It would be good if pig build is configurable to use any maven repo url (with default being maven.org repo).