editors: Thread: New Document: Oracle8-on-RH II

Can someone please pick up this document for review? Review date 7/21.

joy


Joy Y. Goodreau
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                      Luca Roversi                                                                                                     
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Dear all,

on mid June I submitted the HOWTO you can find at:
http://www.di.unito.it/~rover/LOCAL-HOWTOS/
and whose sgml source is in attachment.

The submission generated a discussion thread with title
"Re: Versioning Issues (Oracle 8i HOWTO)", starting at message
number 3243 on ####@####.####

Some days ago I decided to (try) to answer the last message in the
thread, by David Merril. I ended up with writing only to David (I
enclose
that message here below for those who might be interested to read the
reasons why I decided to write the HOWTO above.)

David suggested me to sumbit again the HOWTO above in order to be
published.

So here it is
All the best
Luca Roversi
------------------My message to Davi Merril--------------------------
Dear all,
as far as I could understand, this discussion thread started after I
asked to include a HOWTO to install Oracle 8.1.7 on RH7.2 (like)
systems, that you can find at:
http://www.di.unito.it/~rover/LOCAL-HOWTOS/Oracle8-on-RH7X.html

I wrote the howto above because:
1) it took me about 10 days to find all the necessary information to
have Ora8.1.7 running on a RH7.2 linux box.
2) I wanted to help and encourage students (of a course on the basics of
databases) interested to use one of the latest and good linux
distributions together with Ora8.1.7 for their duties
3) I realized that many other people was interested to overcome odd
problems to have Ora8.1.7 running on such a linux box. (Once I
"announced" on an italian mailing list that I could install the above
Oracle release, somebody even called me by phone to ask questions about
how to solve the problems they encountered)

So, I submitted the above howto to LDP essentially because I have been
pressed by interested people.

I really did consider to modify directly Darlington's howto and "extend"
it to RH7.2. I decided to write another because I thought exactly what
Stephen clearly states in its first message of this thread: any
extension of his howto would transform it in a kind of "if-then-else"
flow-chart, making it essentially unreadable.

I understand that a new howto about Oracle on RH would alter the TOC of
the howtos directory; at the moment, indeed, there are two howtos
dealing with this subject. One is relative to Oracle 7, the other, by
Stephen, is about Oracle 8. This is a reasonable organization, but
following the "real world", it look quite arbitrary, since the
installation problems are evidently related also to the Linux
distribution one wants to use, and not only to the Oracle's
distribution, as the TOC suggests.

I agree that it would be nice to have a kind of automatic configuration
generator, that, given the pair <oracle release, linux release>, yields
the right steps to get through the installation; however, even starting
today, it would take quite a lot before to get it running. In the
meantime, many will be discouraged from using some good linux
distributions together with some stable oracle release, not contributing
to have linux used for real applications.

For all the reasons above, I conclude by asking again to include the
howto:
http://www.di.unito.it/~rover/LOCAL-HOWTOS/Oracle8-on-RH7X.html
as part of LDP.

Best regards
Luca
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