Douglas,

https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm

It's pretty good at quick and dirty package building.

-Eric 

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On Saturday, November 19, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote:

> Ashely,
> 
> Not familiar with fpm. What is it? Are you saying you installed
> Oracle, and then use fpm (rpm?) to create a package from the installed
> files? I thought about that... this approach would work if installing
> Oracle meant just installing files, but what if the installer executes
> scripts etc that are machine dependent?
> 
> Doug.
> 
> On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Ashley Penney <[email protected] 
> (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
> > This is not what you want to hear but I ended up installing oracle with the
> > installer and then using "fpm" to bundle the entire thing into (two, because
> > it's too goddamn big) rpms.  I had no luck doing the installer via Puppet so
> > I just cheated.
> > 
> > On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Douglas Garstang <[email protected] 
> > (mailto:[email protected])>
> > wrote:
> > > 
> > > That's what I am already using.
> > > 
> > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Mohamed Lrhazi <[email protected] 
> > > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
> > > > Maybe you need something like this:
> > > > http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/misc/OuiSilentInstallations.php
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Douglas Garstang
> > > > <[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
> > > > > This is pretty ugly.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I'm using puppet to install Oracle, ie an exec{} wrapped around:
> > > > > 
> > > > > /u01/oracle_extract/linux.x64_11gR2_database/database/runInstaller
> > > > > -silent -responseFile /etc/oracle_response.rsp
> > > > > 
> > > > > The problem is that the damn installer backgrounds itself and returns
> > > > > control to the shell. I tried putting the above command in a script,
> > > > > followed by a wait command, but that didn't help. Has anyone got any
> > > > > ideas how I can automate the installation of Oracle with puppet?
> > > > > 
> > > > > I need to know when the install is finished, because there's
> > > > > additional commands that need to be run by root, as advised by the
> > > > > installer, when it's complete.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Doug.
> > > > > 
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