Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 14:07:09 -0400 From: Dave Hummel <dhummel@simpull.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: mod_perl DBI-Oracle - information/volunteers Message-ID: <3B87E94C.7DDCAA6F@simpull.com>
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Hello,
First of all, I would like to thank the FreeBSD developers for
their efforts. As I become a more experienced UNIX administrator
(Solaris, AIX, Linux, FreeBSD) my appreciation for FreeBSD only
grows. It truly is a great platform.
TO THE POINT:
What I (and I am quite sure others) need is a tidy little package
consisting of apache-mod_perl with DBD-Oracle. In the past I have
used the native Oracle 7 libraries, but I had to give that up because
of lack of CLOB support.
What I am about to attempt is to build a self-contained linux version
of httpd-mod_perl with DBD-Oracle. The requirements as I see them
are:
1 - This will run in a chrooted environment independent of the
/compat/linux
tree.
a - chroot'd webservers are good (aren't they?)
b - I do not want to add libraries/binaries or otherwise munge
the linux_base.
This package should always work with the current version
of linux_base
regardless of changes - a script will be used to copy
required pieces of
linux_base to the chrooted environment.
2 - This will be a tidy package. Not everyone has access to a linux box
to do
the compiles. The package will contain linux-httpd and required
libs,
linux-perl and required libs, and an easy way to install desired
perl_modules.
3 - Obviously the package cannot contain the Oracle libraries because of
licensing. We need to provide a way to extract the required
libraries from a
legally-aquired Oracle distribution.
4 - This should work equally well as tidy package for linux boxen.
5 - This would be documented and maintained.
QUESTIONS:
1 - Has anybody already done this or part of this?
2 - Would anybody be willing to donate time to this by:
a - Assisting with the technical side of things.
b - Writing docs.
c - Testing and providing feedback.
d - Sharing experiences of attempts to do something similar.
e - Sharing thoughts/comments to the overall game plan.
Thanks,
Dave
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