diff --git a/tools/build-oozie.sh b/tools/build-oozie.sh
index 10b088e..9e03175 100755
--- a/tools/build-oozie.sh
+++ b/tools/build-oozie.sh
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ esac
 
 echo "Install required packages"
 sudo apt-get purge -y maven2 maven
-sudo apt-get install -y maven openjdk-7-jdk wget
+sudo apt-get install -y maven openjdk-8-jdk wget xmlstarlet
 mvn --version
 
 echo "Download and unpack Oozie"
@@ -34,6 +34,11 @@ tar xzf oozie-${OOZIE_VERSION}.tar.gz
 echo "Build Oozie"
 pushd oozie-${OOZIE_VERSION}
 find . -name pom.xml | xargs sed -ri "s/${PREV_OOZIE_HADOOP_VERSION}/${HADOOP_VERSION}/g"
+if [ "${OOZIE_VERSION}" = "4.2.0" ]; then
+    # see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OOZIE-2417
+    mv pom.xml pom.xml.orig
+    xmlstarlet ed -P -N N="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" -d "/N:project/N:repositories/N:repository[N:url='http://repository.codehaus.org/']" pom.xml.orig >pom.xml
+fi
 ./bin/mkdistro.sh assembly:single ${BUILD_ARGS} -DjavaVersion=1.7 -DtargetJavaVersion=1.7 -DskipTests
 mkdir -p ./../dist/oozie/
 mv distro/target/oozie-${OOZIE_VERSION}-distro.tar.gz ./../dist/oozie/oozie-${OOZIE_VERSION}-hadoop-${HADOOP_VERSION}.tar.gz