Re: Linker concerns while installing and distributing to other machines - patching later

Ignoring the Oracle support issue that the OP brought up, you can check what shared libraries are being referenced using:   ldd $ORACLE_HOME/bin/oracle

You might want to check a few other key executables, then see if the same version library files are available on the target box. If they are not there, you will not be able to run the copied installation, otherwise you *should* be able to.

Another option, if you really want to maintain the exact same configuration is to "dd" the whole system (Solaris + Oracle) over. This assumes the same architecture boxes are being used.

--Peter

Jason Buchanan wrote:
> I'm trying to determine what level of concern there is for installing
> Oracle database on one machine and then copying the installed files to
> another server. Specifically, one machine is a Solaris 2.8 machine
> whose last recommended patch bundle was applied about 2 years ago
> (yeah, I know but I was overridden on that)... another machine is a
> Solaris 2.8 machine whose last recommended patch bundle was applied
> about 6 months ago but was also jumpstarted from a later Solaris
> release.
>
> Now, my concern is that when the installer is doing the linking
> process (unsure what this does exactly) that tar'ing up what is
> installed on the older OS and plopping it in the same place on the
> newer OS is asking for trouble.
>
> I'm told that it makes no difference but to me it seems like it is not
> wise to do so because a machine whose kernel sits at 108528-12 will
> have old libraries, etc. and bringing across the Oracle install to a
> machine at 108528-29 will introduce the same problems that the
> 108528-12 machine has.
>
>
> Doesn't it seem like the only way to do this correctly is to do a
> fresh install for each machine so that the linker links against the
> system's set of libraries?
>
> Which brings up another point - what happens when you apply the
> recommended patch bundle a year after the initial install of Oracle -
> what happens to all of those things that Oracle linked against 12
> months prior?
>
>
> Thanks!
Received on Wed Jul 21 2004 - 09:22:47 CDT