Re: Rebuilding php rpm to include Oracle support

[Al Tobey <albert tobey priority-health com>]

On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 14:58 -0800, Edward Wilson wrote:
> > > someone said that it meant the file is not owned by the rpm but I don't
> > > know what that means.  Again thanks for any help.
Ack I missed part of the thread.   You probably need to run the rpmbuild
-ba as root or oracle (create a .rpmrc/.rpmmacros and rpm build
structure or chown -R oracle /usr/src/redhat) because Oracle sets some
files to 511 and other such restrictive modes.

> 
> I haven't read the entire thread <so forgive me if I repeat something that was already mentioned>
> but one should **always** be logged in as ORACLE whenever installing Oracle software.  Now in the
> case of the rpm, one may need to be root; however, this should at some point ask for your Oracle
> login.  So the rpm can start out logged in as root, and install system stuff (libs..etc), then
> switch to the Oracle login to install Oracle stuff (libs, utils, executables, scripts...etc).  It
> is VERY VERY important to be logged in as Oracle when performing Oracle installation and patching
> tasks.  I never use rpms for Oracle related software, except kernel patches which are Linux
> specific and have nothing to do with Oracle.  For everything else Oracle, it is best to use the
> Oracle universal (java based) installer.
I have my DBA's install Oracle on the box, then package that up in an
RPM.    Note that I only do this for the Oracle client (with OCI
development) and never anything more.  I've been using this for almost 5
years with NO problems.   We even use rsync to copy the same Oracle
client between our HP-UX systems and that has been a big time saver.
There is no reason you should be paying a DBA $uber/hr to install a mere
client on every one of your machines.   For the database itself, the app
server, or other major packages (like OID), definitely get the
documentation or an experienced DBA.

> 
> Installing Oracle is well documented on the Oracle web site, I would suggest reading up on what
> feature/product you are trying to configure, usually they have docos that will walk you through
> step by step - hint: usually there are a lot of steps with anything Oracle related. :)
> 
> Hope this helps...
> 
> -
> ed
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