Tom,
thanks for that insight. In that light, I guess you and Dirk
have a valid point - the only reason to force is to deal with RPMs that
don't play by the rules anyway!
Thanks,
Kevin
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Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 8:46 AM
To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list
Subject: RE: [rhelv5-list] OCI8 extension for PHP5
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
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