Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:17:59 +0200 From: "Adrian Penisoara" <ady@ady.ro> To: martinko <gamato@users.sf.net> Cc: freebsd-database@freebsd.org, freebsd-emulation@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 ? Message-ID: <78cb3d3f0810221517k780e4cafy6418c42b8c845915@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <gdlmd0$nb8$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <78cb3d3f0807260841k336f20a9jce857189c55adb16@mail.gmail.com> <78cb3d3f0807270122r4d2377d9gbf4e3ed5386918fa@mail.gmail.com> <20080727121503.679bc598@deskjail> <78cb3d3f0807271003q3f5ab72dr2147cf7b1a3348fc@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.1.10.0807272107050.3912@ora.chd.net> <48FE3708.8010501@users.sf.net> <20081021212134.GA79808@graf.pompo.net> <gdlmd0$nb8$1@ger.gmane.org>
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Hi,
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:51 AM, martinko <gamato@users.sf.net> wrote:
> Thierry Thomas wrote:
>>
>> Le Mar 21 oct 08 à 22:09:44 +0200, martinko <gamato@users.sf.net>
>> 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)
I have used a similar schema for the prefixing part, just used a
different variable name. Do not confuse this with the ORACLE_HOME
environment used by Oracle, what we set here is closer to the idea of
ORACLE_BASE.
We should not use a version field in this variable since the product
version signature is further in the path (see below).
>>
>> 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).
Right. See above.
>
> 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.
The OracleXE packages have a hardcoded value for /etc/oratab. I'm
going to leave it this way for the sake of compatibility.
One more question: how usefull would it be to use the Linux (Bash)
shell instead of a native (FreeBSD) shell ?
Thank you for your suggestions, I'm closer to the completion of the port.
Adrian.
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