diff --git a/BUILDING.txt b/BUILDING.txt
index 9d6eb087651..95e36bd539d 100644
--- a/BUILDING.txt
+++ b/BUILDING.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ Requirements:
* Unix System
* JDK 1.6
* Maven 3.0
-* Forrest 0.8 (if generating docs)
* Findbugs 1.3.9 (if running findbugs)
* ProtocolBuffer 2.4.1+ (for MapReduce and HDFS)
* CMake 2.6 or newer (if compiling native code)
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 4b8767c5078..ee2289ce855 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -268,6 +268,8 @@ Release 2.0.3-alpha - Unreleased
HADOOP-8857. hadoop.http.authentication.signature.secret.file docs
should not state that secret is randomly generated. (tucu)
+ HADOOP-9190. packaging docs is broken. (Andy Isaacson via tgraves)
+
Release 2.0.2-alpha - 2012-09-07
INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/docs/forrest.properties b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/docs/forrest.properties
deleted file mode 100644
index 14416af4ba4..00000000000
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/docs/forrest.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,112 +0,0 @@
-#
-# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-# contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
-# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-# the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-#
-
-##############
-# Properties used by forrest.build.xml for building the website
-# These are the defaults, un-comment them if you need to change them.
-##############
-
-# Prints out a summary of Forrest settings for this project
-#forrest.echo=true
-
-# Project name (used to name .war file)
-#project.name=my-project
-
-# Specifies name of Forrest skin to use
-#project.skin=tigris
-#project.skin=pelt
-
-# comma separated list, file:// is supported
-#forrest.skins.descriptors=http://forrest.apache.org/skins/skins.xml,file:///c:/myskins/skins.xml
-
-##############
-# behavioural properties
-#project.menu-scheme=tab_attributes
-#project.menu-scheme=directories
-
-##############
-# layout properties
-
-# Properties that can be set to override the default locations
-#
-# Parent properties must be set. This usually means uncommenting
-# project.content-dir if any other property using it is uncommented
-
-#project.status=status.xml
-#project.content-dir=src/documentation
-#project.raw-content-dir=${project.content-dir}/content
-#project.conf-dir=${project.content-dir}/conf
-#project.sitemap-dir=${project.content-dir}
-#project.xdocs-dir=${project.content-dir}/content/xdocs
-#project.resources-dir=${project.content-dir}/resources
-#project.stylesheets-dir=${project.resources-dir}/stylesheets
-#project.images-dir=${project.resources-dir}/images
-#project.schema-dir=${project.resources-dir}/schema
-#project.skins-dir=${project.content-dir}/skins
-#project.skinconf=${project.content-dir}/skinconf.xml
-#project.lib-dir=${project.content-dir}/lib
-#project.classes-dir=${project.content-dir}/classes
-#project.translations-dir=${project.content-dir}/translations
-
-##############
-# validation properties
-
-# This set of properties determine if validation is performed
-# Values are inherited unless overridden.
-# e.g. if forrest.validate=false then all others are false unless set to true.
-#forrest.validate=true
-#forrest.validate.xdocs=${forrest.validate}
-#forrest.validate.skinconf=${forrest.validate}
-# Workaround (HADOOP-7072) for http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-984
-# Remove when forrest-0.9 is available
-forrest.validate.sitemap=false
-forrest.validate.stylesheets=false
-# End of forrest-0.8 + JDK6 workaround
-#forrest.validate.skins=${forrest.validate}
-forrest.validate.skins.stylesheets=false
-
-# *.failonerror=(true|false) - stop when an XML file is invalid
-#forrest.validate.failonerror=true
-
-# *.excludes=(pattern) - comma-separated list of path patterns to not validate
-# e.g.
-#forrest.validate.xdocs.excludes=samples/subdir/**, samples/faq.xml
-#forrest.validate.xdocs.excludes=
-
-
-##############
-# General Forrest properties
-
-# The URL to start crawling from
-#project.start-uri=linkmap.html
-# Set logging level for messages printed to the console
-# (DEBUG, INFO, WARN, ERROR, FATAL_ERROR)
-#project.debuglevel=ERROR
-# Max memory to allocate to Java
-#forrest.maxmemory=64m
-# Any other arguments to pass to the JVM. For example, to run on an X-less
-# server, set to -Djava.awt.headless=true
-#forrest.jvmargs=
-# The bugtracking URL - the issue number will be appended
-#project.bugtracking-url=http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=
-#project.bugtracking-url=http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/
-# The issues list as rss
-#project.issues-rss-url=
-#I18n Property only works for the "forrest run" target.
-#project.i18n=true
-project.configfile=${project.home}/src/documentation/conf/cli.xconf
-
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/docs/forrest.properties b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/docs/forrest.properties
deleted file mode 100644
index 14416af4ba4..00000000000
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/docs/forrest.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,112 +0,0 @@
-#
-# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-# contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
-# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-# the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-#
-
-##############
-# Properties used by forrest.build.xml for building the website
-# These are the defaults, un-comment them if you need to change them.
-##############
-
-# Prints out a summary of Forrest settings for this project
-#forrest.echo=true
-
-# Project name (used to name .war file)
-#project.name=my-project
-
-# Specifies name of Forrest skin to use
-#project.skin=tigris
-#project.skin=pelt
-
-# comma separated list, file:// is supported
-#forrest.skins.descriptors=http://forrest.apache.org/skins/skins.xml,file:///c:/myskins/skins.xml
-
-##############
-# behavioural properties
-#project.menu-scheme=tab_attributes
-#project.menu-scheme=directories
-
-##############
-# layout properties
-
-# Properties that can be set to override the default locations
-#
-# Parent properties must be set. This usually means uncommenting
-# project.content-dir if any other property using it is uncommented
-
-#project.status=status.xml
-#project.content-dir=src/documentation
-#project.raw-content-dir=${project.content-dir}/content
-#project.conf-dir=${project.content-dir}/conf
-#project.sitemap-dir=${project.content-dir}
-#project.xdocs-dir=${project.content-dir}/content/xdocs
-#project.resources-dir=${project.content-dir}/resources
-#project.stylesheets-dir=${project.resources-dir}/stylesheets
-#project.images-dir=${project.resources-dir}/images
-#project.schema-dir=${project.resources-dir}/schema
-#project.skins-dir=${project.content-dir}/skins
-#project.skinconf=${project.content-dir}/skinconf.xml
-#project.lib-dir=${project.content-dir}/lib
-#project.classes-dir=${project.content-dir}/classes
-#project.translations-dir=${project.content-dir}/translations
-
-##############
-# validation properties
-
-# This set of properties determine if validation is performed
-# Values are inherited unless overridden.
-# e.g. if forrest.validate=false then all others are false unless set to true.
-#forrest.validate=true
-#forrest.validate.xdocs=${forrest.validate}
-#forrest.validate.skinconf=${forrest.validate}
-# Workaround (HADOOP-7072) for http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-984
-# Remove when forrest-0.9 is available
-forrest.validate.sitemap=false
-forrest.validate.stylesheets=false
-# End of forrest-0.8 + JDK6 workaround
-#forrest.validate.skins=${forrest.validate}
-forrest.validate.skins.stylesheets=false
-
-# *.failonerror=(true|false) - stop when an XML file is invalid
-#forrest.validate.failonerror=true
-
-# *.excludes=(pattern) - comma-separated list of path patterns to not validate
-# e.g.
-#forrest.validate.xdocs.excludes=samples/subdir/**, samples/faq.xml
-#forrest.validate.xdocs.excludes=
-
-
-##############
-# General Forrest properties
-
-# The URL to start crawling from
-#project.start-uri=linkmap.html
-# Set logging level for messages printed to the console
-# (DEBUG, INFO, WARN, ERROR, FATAL_ERROR)
-#project.debuglevel=ERROR
-# Max memory to allocate to Java
-#forrest.maxmemory=64m
-# Any other arguments to pass to the JVM. For example, to run on an X-less
-# server, set to -Djava.awt.headless=true
-#forrest.jvmargs=
-# The bugtracking URL - the issue number will be appended
-#project.bugtracking-url=http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=
-#project.bugtracking-url=http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/
-# The issues list as rss
-#project.issues-rss-url=
-#I18n Property only works for the "forrest run" target.
-#project.i18n=true
-project.configfile=${project.home}/src/documentation/conf/cli.xconf
-
diff --git a/hadoop-project-dist/pom.xml b/hadoop-project-dist/pom.xml
index 089fb9dcbbf..bc965ded467 100644
--- a/hadoop-project-dist/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project-dist/pom.xml
@@ -247,13 +247,6 @@
-
-
-
-
-