On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 08:06 -0700, Collins, Kevin [MindWorks] wrote: > Yes, I realize I can do that, but its not very supportable - it kind of > defeats the purpose of RPM...
Well, if you trying to use Oracle's sorry RPM's then you've already got a supportability problem. Last time I looked the RPM install that Oracle provides is basically useless from a dependency perspective. Basically, you've install an RPM which has the dependency you require (oracle instant client), however, the RPM which you install fails to update the systems RPM database so that other RPM's know that you've met this dependency and thus they fail to install with a dependency error. I think that's what Matthias packages attempt to fix. His packages allow you to build an actual working RPM from the Oracle provided zip files which provides a proper dependency tree for other RPM's to be built and installed instead of the completely broken crap RPM's provided by Oracle (pretty funny for a company that claims to sell "Unbreakable Linux" to continually provide such broken linux stuff). Later, Tom _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
