[Mageia-discuss] Support of Mageia in BigTop

Fri Aug 26 10:04:19 CEST 2011

On 08/25/2011 01:53 PM, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
+> Hi Bruno,
+>
+> 2011/8/14 Bruno Mahe <bruno.mahe at laposte.net>:
+>
+>> I don't know how many fans of hadoop there are around here, but I
+>> recently added support for Mageia in BigTop. This is not yet checked in
+>> and in a release, but it means anyone can now build or install packages
+>> for the following projects (descriptions taken from their respective
+>> website):
+> I know a little bit about Hadoop but BigTop is new to me. I found
+> https://github.com/cloudera/bigtop/wiki but it's not quite clear to me
+> what I need to do to build a Mageia package. Could you elaborate a bit
+> on this subject please?
+>
+
+Hi Reinout,
+
+First of all, BigTop is now an Apache Incubator project. So all
+informations are located here:
+http://incubator.apache.org/projects/bigtop.html
+
+I also put on the wiki a small faq explaining how to build a component:
+https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/BIGTOP/Frequently+Asked+Questions+%28FAQ%29#FrequentlyAskedQuestions%28FAQ%29-HowtobuildacomponentofBigTop%3F
+But in a nutshell, you should just have to type: "make <component>-rpm"
+where component is one of the following value "flume  hadoop  hbase 
+hive  oozie  pig  sqoop  whirr  zookeeper"
+You could also just type "make rpm" to build RPMs for all the projects.
+
+
+You will also find a list of dependencies needed to build Hadoop here:
+http://incubator.apache.org/bigtop/
+Note Forrest 0.8 (documentation generation tool used by hadoop and pig)
+will only work on with a 32bit 1.5 JDK. This should be only needed for
+building Hadoop.
+
+
+And also, in the "test" directory, you will find a testing framework
+(along with some tests) to automatically do:
+* package testing  (checking files attributes, checking packages
+metadata, ensuring service scripts perform as expected...)
+* smoke testing to ensure correct basic usage of each component
+* integration testing to ensure interoperability between each component
+
+
+I hope this answer your questions. But feel free to let me know if you
+encounter any issue.
+Don't hesitate also to join BigTop mailing list.
+
+Thanks,
+Bruno
+