From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 7 19:13:18 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E62E1065670 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2008 19:13:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ady@ady.ro) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.174]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 436118FC25 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2008 19:13:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ady@ady.ro) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 25so644736wfa.7 for ; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:13:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.47.6 with SMTP id u6mr1009141wfu.29.1204917197345; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:13:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.143.37.8 with HTTP; Fri, 7 Mar 2008 11:13:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <78cb3d3f0803071113u52e53773pca8692fb1bb39f43@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 21:13:17 +0200 From: "Adrian Penisoara" Sender: ady@ady.ro To: shildreth@allantgroup.com In-Reply-To: <1204907828.14078.216.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <78cb3d3f0803070636l38ca7683t24235efd8f989c67@mail.gmail.com> <1204907828.14078.216.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 9b0ece2d957ad1fe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-emulation Subject: Re: Preparing an Oracle Database XE port/package -- any tips ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:13:18 -0000 Hi, On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Scott T. Hildreth < shildret@scotth.emsphone.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 16:36 +0200, Adrian Penisoara wrote: > > Hi, > > > > 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. > > > > The goal is not only to add the port into FreeBSD's ports tree but also > to > > eventually convince Oracle (I work for them) to post the package on > their > > official download page. > > I wonder if 10g will run on 7.0. I am running 9.2.0.8, but I think > 10g might need the 2.6 kernel. > > Actually Oracle XE is based on Oracle 10.2.0.1: $ lsnrctl status LSNRCTL for Linux: Version 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on 07-MAR-2008 21:06:55 Copyright (c) 1991, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved. $ sysctl compat.linux.osrelease compat.linux.osrelease: 2.4.2 $ uname -r 6.2-STABLE Installation docs say OracleXE is certified for RH Linux Fedora Core 4 (among others) which is just fine for us using emulators/linux_base-fc4 as a dependency. Regards, Adrian