[TRAFODION-2491] pyinstaller - need option to install somewhere beside /home

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.1-incubating
• Component/s: installer
• Environment: jenkins
• Assignee: Yi (Eason) Zhang
• Reporter: Steve Varnau
• Created: 17/Feb/17 18:16
• Updated: 20/Feb/17 03:46

Description

The bash installer allows an arbitrary path for TRAF_HOME, but defaults to /home/...

The pyinstaller allows an arbitrary directory name, but always places it in home directory of TRAF_USER (trafodion).

Jenkins automation uses this feature to be sure log files can be archived from the jenkins workspace. I think other folks testing on large clusters do as well.

Production use may also need this if /home filesystem is too small for logs and other things that go there.

In future, we need installation in standard system locations (/usr/, /etc/, /var/log, ...), but until then, I think we need flexible location of TRAF_HOME.

This is not a show-stopper for jenkins, but would make the transition a lot easier.