[ale] Red Hat upgrades?

[Jim Kinney]

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:47 AM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Time permitting, I would also work to automate the installation of the
> > complicated app that runs on the stack.
>
> It's as automated as it can be (further than the default). This
> software is such crap that you can run the installer, watch it quit
> because of an error, and then re-run the installer (without changing a
> single thing!) to see it re-do everything done previously but this
> time not get the error that made it quit. I promise, this is stuff you
> want to install as few times as possible.
>

<SNARK!> Must be an Oracle application </SNARK!>

I hit something a few years back that was similar. The install process was
literally run the installer three times in a row. Each time it got further
in the process. After #3, go delete a file, make a symlink and run it the
FOURTH time for the win. horrid, horrid, horrid. much bad memories.

>
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