I suspect that Oracle prefer to certify their apps against a binary distribution as then it is easier to know that everyone is running the same package versions, etc.
Perhaps there could be an ebuild created that specified the exact versions of everything that Oracle specified. Kernel version, GCC version, Glibc version, GCC flags - the whole shebang. That way, Oracle could be sure that emerging "oracle10base" would bring a Gentoo system up (or down) to the levels that the app was certified to. C -----Original Message----- From: Brian Kroth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 31 July 2006 14:56 To: gentoo-security@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-security] US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA06-208A-- Mozilla Products Contain Multiple Vulnerabilities (fwd) Ben Anderson wrote: > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Oracle_10g > > Anyone know if there's anything we could do to encourage Oracle to > support Gentoo as an install platform? > > Ben. > Yes, I'd like to second this request. It's such a pain to have that one oddball RedHat server when all the rest are Gentoo. Brian -- gentoo-security@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-security@gentoo.org mailing list
