From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Aug 20 2:50:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from gaia.euronet.nl (gaia.euronet.nl [194.134.0.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 631A0151A0 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 02:50:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-ports@scc.nl) Received: from mail.scc.nl (i412.ztm.euronet.nl [194.134.67.133]) by gaia.euronet.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA26220 from for ; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 11:50:02 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by mail.scc.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA54012 for ports@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 11:43:07 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd-ports@scc.nl) Received: from GATEWAY by scones.sup.scc.nl with netnews for ports@FreeBSD.ORG (ports@FreeBSD.ORG) To: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 11:43:04 +0200 From: Marcel Moolenaar Message-ID: <37BD2328.ABCFA1A9@scc.nl> Organization: SCC vof Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <199908200541.NAA10204@netrinsics.com> Subject: Re: Oracle Requirements Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Michael Robinson wrote: > The installation instructions for Linux Oracle on FreeBSD say that > linux_base and linux_devtools are prerequisites for running Oracle under > Linux emulation. However, it looks like those two packages basically > install RedHat 5.2. I'm assuming that Oracle doesn't require, for example, > a fortran compiler (egcs-g77). It is basicly not needed. > Does anyone have a minimal list of rpms necessary to make Oracle happy? I wouldn't know. > Would it be possible to make a port of just those? Why would you want that. If you're concerned about disc space, then I would suggest not to use Oracle, because the size of the ports are not really significant in the total size needed. Anyway, what's stopping you from deinstalling packages after you've installed the ports? You can for example try to remove all X related packages. -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ Amsterdam, The Netherlands tel: +31 20 4200655 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message