On 01/30/2011 12:36 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> Your cow-orker clearly doesn't know what he/she/it is talking about.

Have you dealt with Oracle support?

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On 01/30/2011 10:52 AM, Ian Pilcher wrote:
> On 01/30/2011 12:36 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>> Your cow-orker clearly doesn't know what he/she/it is talking about.
>
> Have you dealt with Oracle support?
>

No, but I used to do tech support for an ISP at senior level. IMAO,
most of the phone firewall had no idea what was going on and just
grabbed cheat sheets at random.
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On 01/30/2011 11:34 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:19:16 -0500
> Genes MailLists wrote:
>
>> Great tip .. thanks. (Course you don't get the updates that way unless
>> you mirror adobe's repo locally and use that .. )
>
> Actually, once I get it installed, it is usually safe to re-enable the
> repo since I now have the fedora versions of all the packages and
> I seem to only get the updates for things that are only available
> from adobe from the adobe repos. The 32 bit packages I got seem to
> get updated from the fedora repos OK. At least I haven't noticed
> any confusion so far.

Yes that makes sense - probably they dont add new deps ... okidok
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On 01/30/2011 11:00 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> Your coworker is wrong. yum (Yellowdog Updater Modified ported from
> Yellowdog Linux for the PowerPC) is an intelligent front end for rpm
> (Red Hat Package Manager) that adds dependency resolution capabilities.
> They both use the rpm API and they install packages exactly the same
> way.
I certainly agree with you.

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On 01/30/2011 01:36 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 01/30/2011 07:37 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> The question was just for answering the criticism from my coworker that
>> I should have used rpm(8) and not yum(8).
> Your cow-orker clearly doesn't know what he/she/it is talking about.
I very well know.

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On 01/30/2011 01:52 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote:
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> Have you dealt with Oracle support?
>
Don't need to for 2 reasons. The first is that my initial issue was most
probably a cockpit error, and the second is I know several Oracle
employees, a couple of whom were students in my class when I taught at
Northeastern University.

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