fedora-list Digest, Vol 51, Issue 48

[Rick Stevens]

Gene Poole wrote:
> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Mauriat M <mirandam at gmail.com> wrote:
>> How near term? Just out of curiosity, since this is a server, do you
>> plan to upgrade out of some deficiency in Fedora 8? F8 will still be
>> supported for some time.
>>
>> You posted in the past asking about a howto for Oracle on F8.  Did you
>> ever find that? Or did you figure it out yourself? I hope you kept
>> good notes.
>>
>> Samba and Apache/Tomcat are natively supported by Fedora so I imagine
>> that there will be a well defined upgrade path for those components.
>> As for Oracle, it would be wise to do some testing on a separate F9
>> install. Even if Oracle runs without incidence on F9, running an
>> upgrade by the F9 installer may still not be perfect. There are many
>> reasons why an upgrade may not work as well as a fresh install (e.g.
>> manual tweaks, source installs, 3rd party packages).
>>
>> I'm assuming this server is critical in which case I would recommend
>> testing on a separate system (or virtualized if you don't have
>> hardware).  The more testing, the less potential hiccups.
>>
>> Although I could be wrong, I doubt you'll get much experience from
>> users here matching your exact same configuration/scenario.
>>
>> -Mauriat
> 
> I won't upgrade for at least a month after the GA.  I did find the Oracle
> Howto on several locations, but they weren't available until about 2-weeks
> after Fedora 8 GA. Although I called this a server machine, and it is, I
> like to do some things on it that require resources that aren't available
> on my other machines (sometimes it's bad that Linux runs so well on older
> hardware), so I like the new KDE4. My issue with the Apache and Tomcat that
> Fedora provides is that I like to install my software where I want my
> software installed - in it's very own file systems. This helps me when I
> must do a full install, all I have to remember is what I've put in
> /etc/rc.d/init.d, /etc, /etc/profile.d, /usr/bin, and my yum repositories.
> I would use the provided RPMs if I could control where the install is
> placed.

That's what the "--installroot" option to yum and rpm is for.  It
doesn't work with all packages, but must take it OK.
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