It is rarely used and was not consistently handled by different distributions anyway.
This commit also adds a test for specifying CONF_DIR when installing plugins and
starting elasticsearch.
relates to #12712 and #12954closes#5329closes#13715
Only the debian init script did JAVA_HOME detection. Everything else just
relied on `bin/elasticsearch`'s `which java` style detection. This strips
the detection from the debian init script so its like the rpm init script.
Closes#13403
Adds an explicit description the RPM package so it doesn't inherit the description from the POM.
Closes#12550
Also, modified descriptions for deb and rpm packages to be the same and to reference the documentation rather than listing features that are out of date.
When installed as a service with a DEB or RPM package, we should gently wait for elasticsearch to stop (flushing indices on closing can take some time) and never kill the process.
Closes#11248
This change creates a proper `distribution` modules in which we have today packaging for
all of our four current packages:
* zip
* tar.gz
* rpm
* deb
Licenes have moved into the distribution project as well. So have the config/ and the bin/ directory
from the core/ project.
The RPM package is now built, if rpmbuild exists.
The bats tests have been moved as well.
Also the zip distribution now executes the REST integration tests.
Nik Everett
Britta Weber
Colin Goodheart-Smithe
Tanguy Leroux
Alexander Reelsen