Preparing an Oracle Database XE port/package -- any tips ?

Jonathan Adams jka at alum.howard.edu
Fri Mar 7 16:26:22 UTC 2008


I am defnitely interested in helping in this area if needed.  A couple
of years ago, I struggled mightily trying to get Oracle running on 5.1

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Rink Springer <rink at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>  On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 04:36:56PM +0200, Adrian Penisoara wrote:
>  >   After having to deploy an Oracle Database XE [1] installation (with Linux
>  > 32bit binaries from the official RPM package) on a production FreeBSD
>  > 6.2machine I realized it would be very much feasible to produce a
>  > FreeBSD
>  > port/package for it.
>  >   I would like to know whether similar efforts have been undergoing and
>  > whether people came up with some tips & tricks on this.
>
>  We run Oracle XE on two FreeBSD 6.3 machines at work - we've just
>  manually set it up, but are very interested in a port of it. We did
>  the same as you basically - just uncompress it and move the files in
>  place.
>
>  Regards,
>
>  --
>  Rink P.W. Springer                                - http://rink.nu
>  "Anyway boys, this is America. Just because you get more votes doesn't
>   mean you win." - Fox Mulder
>
>
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