Re: RHEL 8

Certified or not . As Tim said it already works. On github you can already try and play with 1 - 19c database install builds on:

• OL8 <https://github.com/oraclebase/vagrant/tree/master/database/ol8_19>
• RHEL8 <https://github.com/KoussHD/vagrant/tree/master/database/rhel8_19>
• Centos8 <https://github.com/KoussHD/vagrant/tree/master/database/cent8_19> 2- 19c Dataguard on
  • OL8 <https://github.com/KoussHD/vagrant/tree/master/dataguard/ol8_19>
• RHEL8 <https://github.com/KoussHD/vagrant/tree/master/dataguard/rhel8_19>
• Centos8 <https://github.com/KoussHD/vagrant/tree/master/dataguard/cent8_19>

3- And finally with few tweaks I got RAC 19c to work on OL8 and Centos8. Stay away from RHEL8 if you want to test RAC19c because it's a nightmare (2nd node ocr gets corrupted right after being attached during gridsetup .. tried like a lot of times)

          RAC19 on OL8 and Centos8
<https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/oracle-rac-19c-builds-linux8centos8-vagrant-kosseila-hd/>

weirdly enough I never thought RHEL would be more bug prone that its clones.

Cheers
koss

On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 10:08 AM Tim Hall <tim_at_oracle-base.com> wrote:

> It's hard to tell. In sessions Oracle say they aren't expecting people to
> upgrade to 20c, but instead wait for the next long term support release.
> Maybe 23c or something like that. The logic went, stick with the LTS
> release unless you know you need something from a later release. If that
> something is OL8 support, then maybe you're correct, but I think people
> will be wanting to start the move to OL8 before the next LTS release of the
> database. OL7 ends it's normal cycle at 2024. I'm not happy about
> installing it for new stuff now, let alone for the next 3 years. If Oracle
> don't support 19c on OL8, there are going to be a lot of unhappy people
> along the way.
>
> Pretty sure the a new preinstall package could make the install happy.
> When I was doing it, all I had to add was this.
>
> export CV_ASSUME_DISTID=OEL7.6
>
>>
> Cheers
>
> Tim...
>

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