Re: Opatch rant

The best perl to deal with opatch is provided by oracle under patch number 2417994 specially for WINDOWS. No problem at all to opatch with this version.

Regards
Rafiq

On 5/20/05, Paula_Stankus_at_doh.state.fl.us <Paula_Stankus_at_doh.state.fl.us> w= rote:
> I talked to oracle after applying a one-off patch recommended by oracle t=
o 9.0.2.3 of the app server
> I was told oracle does not do regression testing of one-off patches
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> Anyone else here that. I must have missed that in the rls docs and readm=
e. I do not remember seeing it there. You would think it would be in big = bold letters on the readme
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> Subject: Opatch rant
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> Wanna see something interesting with opatch?
> *nix: perl -cw $ORACLE_HOME/OPatch/opatch.pl
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> Windoze: perl -cw %ORACLE_HOME%\opatch\opatch.pl
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> Anyone else have trouble with opatch and Perl 5.8.3?
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> Windows 2003
> Perl 5.8.3
> Opatch 1.0....52
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> Opatch either exits with an error code that is a very long negative numbe=
r,
> or just spits out its copyright information and quits.
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> Interestingly, installing Perl 5.0.00503 in OH/Apache cures the problem, =
as
> the opatch.bat script will find it there and it runs happily.
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> 5.8.3 seems to work fine on a Win2K box with the same version of opatch.
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