Oracle wants to install YAST on RHEL

[fernando at lozano.eti.br]

Hi there,

I'd advise against using Yast. It's an all or nothing proposition: either you configure everything
through Yast, else Yast will erase changes you did manually to system configuration files the next
time someone uses Yast. Ast least it used to work this way years ago, the last time I administered a
SuSE server.


[]s, Fernando Lozano


> Our Red Hat systems are dedicated Oracle DB engines clustered with
> Oracle's RAC software.  The DBA administers via the Oracle Enterprise
> Manager GUI, which now wants to install Oracle's port of YAST.  It
> contains over a 100 .RPM modules.  From the packages.list, in sorted
> order:
>         aaa_base-9.1-*.rpm
>         autoyast2-installation-2.9.45-*.rpm
>         fillup-1.42-*.rpm        
>         hwinfo-8.99-*.rpm
>         ldapcpplib-0.0.3-*.rpm
>         libxcrypt-2.1.90-*.rpm
>         liby2util-2.9.24-*.rpm  
>         netcat-1.10-*.rpm  
>         nmbstatus-1.11-*.rpm
>         perl-Config-Crontab-1.03-*.rpm
>         perl-Crypt-SmbHash-0.02-*.rpm
>         perl-Digest-MD4-1.3-*.rpm
>         perl-gettext-1.01-*.rpm
>         perl-Parse-RecDescent-1.80-*.rpm
>         perl-X500-DN-0.28-*.rpm
>         powertweak-0.99.5-*.rpm
>         powertweak-extra-0.99.5-*.rpm
>         testutf8-1.0-*.rpm
>         xmset-1.2-*.rpm
>         yast2-2.9.75-*.rpm
>         yast2-bootloader-2.9.22-*.rpm
> yast2-ldap-client-2.9.29-*.rpm  \
>         yast2-control-center-2.9.11-*.rpm
>         yast2-core-2.9.94-*.rpm
>         yast2-country-2.9.24-*.rpm
>         yast2-dhcp-server-2.9.23-*.rpm
>         yast2-dns-server-2.9.24-*.rpm
>         ...
>         yast2-tune-2.9.22-*.rpm
>         yast2-update-2.9.27-*.rpm yast2-inetd-2.9.12-*.rpm
> yast2-network-2.9.57-*.rpm \
>         yast2-users-2.9.39-*.rpm yast2-pam-2.9.13-*.rpm
> yast2-security-2.9.14-*.rpm \
>         yast2-x11-2.9.11-*.rpm
>         yast2-xml-2.9.8-*.rpm
> 
> Your opinions on adding YAST?  
> I have no trashable systems and no bare-metal restore capabilities.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> 
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