From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 21 22:51:26 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 5BEAC1065673 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:51:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-emulation@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBA698FC26 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:51:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-emulation@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KsQ4O-0003e9-Dw for freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:51:20 +0000 Received: from 200.41.broadband11.iol.cz ([90.178.41.200]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:51:20 +0000 Received: from gamato by 200.41.broadband11.iol.cz with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:51:20 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org From: martinko Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:51:12 +0200 Lines: 48 Message-ID: References: <78cb3d3f0807260841k336f20a9jce857189c55adb16@mail.gmail.com> <78cb3d3f0807270122r4d2377d9gbf4e3ed5386918fa@mail.gmail.com> <20080727121503.679bc598@deskjail> <78cb3d3f0807271003q3f5ab72dr2147cf7b1a3348fc@mail.gmail.com> <48FE3708.8010501@users.sf.net> <20081021212134.GA79808@graf.pompo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 200.41.broadband11.iol.cz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20081009 SeaMonkey/1.1.12 In-Reply-To: <20081021212134.GA79808@graf.pompo.net> Sender: news Cc: freebsd-database@freebsd.org, rofug@rofug.ro, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Q: Is there any use for Oracle database port installation under Linux compat root ? 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: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:51:26 -0000 Thierry Thomas wrote: > Le Mar 21 oct 08 à 22:09:44 +0200, martinko > écrivait : > >> Hi, > > Hello, > >> No Oracle installation I have ever seen was installed into /home and it >> would be against Oracle Optimal Flexible Architecture (OFA) guidelines! > > Agreed. > >> /usr/local/oracle would be OK and users can move the directory tree >> elsewhere afterwards. Or maybe you can ask about Oracle Base directory >> during config/installation process, if possible. > > I would suggest to install under $ORACLE_HOME, defaulted to: > > ORACLE_HOME?= ${PREFIX}/oracle > > (or may be ${PREFIX}/oracle${VERSION} to allow the installation of > different versions) > > Regards, Hallo, Well, it's a bit more complicated than that.. OFA guidelines say that $ORACLE_HOME shoud be in the form of e.g. $ORACLE_BASE/product/10.2.0/db_1 And application (DB) is installed into its $ORACLE_HOME and thus one can have many different installations of many different versions. Then there are other directories under $ORACLE_BASE that usually contain Oracle Inventory (of installed software) and DB data files etc. Usually everything under $ORACLE_BASE is created and taken care by Oracle Universal Installer (which is Java application). Another issue may be where to place oratab file. It is located in /var/opt/oracle/oratab on SunOS and in /etc/oratab on other Unixes. Cheers, Martin