Every so often I have a nose around the contents of the Oracle Linux public yum repositories and guess what I found in the OL7.1 base and OL7 latest repositories.
- oracle-rdbms-server-11gR2-preinstall-1.0-3.el7.src.rpm
- oracle-rdbms-server-11gR2-preinstall-1.0-3.el7.x86_64.rpm
- oracle-rdbms-server-12cR1-preinstall-1.0-3.el7.src.rpm
- oracle-rdbms-server-12cR1-preinstall-1.0-3.el7.x86_64.rpm
Yeeeeeaaaaahhhhhh!
The datestamps suggest they’ve been around since the 5th February, but I think these only became available with the release of OL7.1.
On the positive side, this means installations of 11g and 12c just got a whole lot easier on Oracle Linux 7. On the downside, I’ve got some minor rewrites to do. 🙂
Cheers
Tim…
Why doesn’t Oracle stop pretending it’s the 1980s and provide packages to install the whole DBMS?
Colin : I guess there are two responses to this:
1) Yes. I agree. Installation on Linux should be an RPM. Installation on Windows should be an MSI/EXE.
2) No. I disagree. There is a consistent approach to installation on all platforms and that is to use the OUI. Making an exception for Linux is a bad things from the consistency perspective.
From Oracle’s perspective, (2) is the attractive argument. From our perspective, it is all about (1). 🙂
Cheers
Tim…