Oracle isn't an rpm install, and as such has little dependency checking inbuilt - it has relied on manual verification. This new package purely implements the dependencies, removing the manual work. There is no direct relationship between the Oracle installer and this package.
Cheers Damian -----Original Message----- From: David Boyes [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 23 April 2010 16:07 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Oracle 10.2.0 Install > Now available for s390x - Red Hat 5 and SLES 10 - an RPM to check that > software prerequisites are met before Oracle software is installed. It > doesn't contain or install any executable of itself, but the rpm > install process will perform updates to software components if > required, or install missing rpms, depending on the options chosen. > We'll be maintaining this as the OS components change. Please refer to > Note 1086769.1 for full details, and send me any feedback or problems. So to get this straight: You're going to make the Oracle RPM install depend on this package, and you're going to correctly maintain the dependencies for the Oracle installation as dependencies of this magic placeholder package. Right? If so, cool. If not, seems like fixing the dependencies of the original Oracle package would be just as effective. -- db ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
