Re: pdksh on CentOS -5
- From: Ravi Madabhushanam <ravi.madabhushanam@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: mdemenko@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 00:03:25 +0530
Wow. Thanks Maxim.
Let me try this option and get back to you. I believe, may be this resolves
my issue.
Thanks a lot.
~Ravi.M
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 11:58 PM, Maxim Demenko <mdemenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ravi, the issue with CentOS 5 is, that 11gR2 OUI tries to determine,
> whether given operating system is one of certified
> on centos 5 this code path goes a little bit wrong, so the installer
> thinks, it would be redhat 4 or alike (thus , pdksh requirement)
> in particular, verification check for RH5 is somewhat like
> rpm -q redhat-release-5Server
>
> On the centos 5 this package is missing, instead there is similar package
> centos-release-5-5.el5.centos with following contents:
> /etc/issue
> /etc/issue.net
> /etc/pki/rpm-gpg
> /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
> /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-beta
> /etc/redhat-release
> /etc/sysconfig/rhn
> /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources
> /etc/yum.repos.d
> /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo
> /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Media.repo
> /usr/share/doc/centos-release-5
> /usr/share/doc/centos-release-5/EULA
> /usr/share/doc/centos-release-5/GPL
> /usr/share/doc/centos-release-5/autorun-template
> /usr/share/eula/eula.en_US
> /usr/share/firstboot/modules/eula.py
> /usr/share/firstboot/modules/eula.pyc
> /usr/share/firstboot/modules/eula.pyo
>
> So to fool the installer (but still not preventing it to do all the rest of
> checks) one can
> 1) download a source rpm from redhat
> http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/os/SRPMS/build
> and install with --nodeps (after that, original centos rpm can be
> reinstalled)
> 2) build a simple dummy rpm with this name ( as only rpm name actually
> will be queried) - i did it with following spec file:
> cat redhat-release-5Server-5.4.0.3.spec
> Summary: Dummy Package to provide redhat-release
> Name: redhat-release
> Version: 5Server
> Release: 5.4.0.3
> Group: System Environment/Base
> License: Beerware
> BuildArch: i386
>
> %description
>
> This meta-package fools other packages to think you have redhat-release
> installed
>
> %files
>
>
>
> After that, oui checks (at least on my test server) the packages as it
> would do on RHEL 5 and not RHEL 4 and all requirements can be met without
> installing fully useless pdksh package.
>
> Best regards
>
> Maxim
>
>
> On 04.06.2010 12:16, Ravi Madabhushanam wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I'm trying to install 11gR2 and Application server on CentOS 5.2 server.
>> During 11gR2 installation OUI complained about pdksh not being installed.
>> This rpm is not present in the default rpm list in MOS. After raising an
>> Oracle SR , analyst confirmed that it is not needed.
>>
>> Also AS installation is complaining about openmotif21 rpm along with
>> pdksh. But I can find openmotif22 on the installation media . Did anyone
>> faced these issues? or am I missing something critical here. Also why am I
>> supposed to install pdksh when we already have ksh installed as part of
>> pre-req's.
>>
>> Thanks you very much.
>>
>> Regards,
>> ~Ravi.M
>>
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