Should "oracle" be installed via rpm on RHEL?

[StFS]

This is more of a question than an issue.

I'm just wondering whether the oracle recipe should check for the existence of the java-1.7.0-oracle (available on RHEL from the rhel-extras repository) instead of downloading the binary and performing a "manual" install.

[jcarapet]

I was curious about a similar issue with this cookbook. I was hoping to install Java 1.7( jdk-7u51-linux-x64) via a local RPM in my binary repository instead of downloading it, but I have not been having a lot of luck from my efforts to configure the cookbook. Might be already solved with a different ticket but I haven't seen it yet.

[carmstrong]

Have you tried using the oracle_rpm install_flavor and overriding node['java']['oracle_rpm']['type'] with the desired package name?

If that works well, we may need better logic for setting that attribute.

[erichelgeson]

Did setting that node attribute work for you?

[jcarapet]

For me, setting the install type and version attributes was the trick to solving all the problems. I forgot how annoying this was when I was starting out with Chef.

[lock]

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