On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, Devan Goodwin wrote:
Right now, Spacewalk requires the Oracle RPM. Is there a plan to
fix this?
Seems like what we need is a "Provides: spacewalk-db" that can be
satisfied either by the right version of Postgres or the right
version of Oracle.
Good idea, I think the most recent discussion on the subject was in
this thread:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01757.html
Is this something that anyone's working on? Because if not, it
seems like it's the kind of thing that we could toss out to
community hands -- I'm guessing that a lot of Spacewalk users have
experience building their own packages, and could probably hack the
specfiles pretty quickly.
Don't think anyone is working on it, but was raised by several people
when we sent out recent draft of how to get up and running with the
preliminary pgsql code.
Ah-HAH! Someone *is* working on it, in fact. Note the difference
between the Spacewalk 0.6 release repo for Fedora 11...
http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/0.6/Fedora/11/i386/os/Packages/
...which contains spacewalk-0.6.4-1.fc11.noarch.rpm, and the nightly
repo...
http://miroslav.suchy.cz/spacewalk/nightly-candidate-f11/i386/os/Packages/
...which no longer contains the vanilla "spacewalk" package, but instead
contains two different packages:
spacewalk-oracle-0.7.2-1.fc11.noarch.rpm
spacewalk-postgresql-0.7.2-1.fc11.noarch.rpm
So progress, looks like! Except that spacewalk-postgresql still seems to
require oracle-instantclient-basic in a number of places.
Do I understand properly that the purpose of the spacewalk-postgresql
package is, in part, to abstract away Oracle deps? Can anyone help in
this process, or should we just keep waiting a bit?
Actually, it makes me wonder if it makes sense to have the Oracle
dependency at all. One of the common use cases is to have
Spacewalk/Satellite on one machine, and the Oracle DB on an entirely
separate machine. How do you handle the deps in this case?
IIRC there isn't much for actual Oracle *server* deps but more so for
libraries that live on the same machine as the Spacewalk install. In
the Spacewalk case there are may be some pkgs requiring the server
somewhere but I doubt many.
Quite right -- I was mistaken. The Oracle deps I've found seem to be
client deps rather than server deps.
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