I've been hacking away to get this installed on oracle8 and while I have had some success with rebuilding source RPMs it messes us Oracle Linux Manager. Even worse when switching to EPEL repo rather than oracles own repo,
My understanding is you are aiming to match the two repos (or is that channels), which is great. Do you have any sort of timeframe for this?
Any alternative solutions would be appreciated. Am I to assume that the package will still not available if I subscribe to the paid for oracle channels?