And I'm glad someone from CA is asking :) Don't make your customers go find a 31bit java and compat-2009 packages to run your agent. The java won't get patched by our normal SUSE updates and we'll have to remember to go get new ones all the time.
Marcy -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Berthold Gunreben Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 12:26 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] What are your feelings about non-RPM installers for Linux? On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 07:33:04 +0000 "Pavelka, Tomas" <tomas.pave...@ca.com> wrote: > Hello, > I am in the middle of discussion about how to package and install > software on Linux for System z. There are people new to Linux involved > and things like InstallAnywhere are coming up. What is your experience > with non-RPM installers? For example, IBM Java no longer comes in as > RPM for the s390x (or at least I can't find the RPM version anymore). > Does this cause problems for you? And if so, could you give examples > of such problems?
