On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 10:43 -0600, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 05/31/2010 05:13 AM, Jason D wrote: > > There is however never been an issue to locate different version of python > > in your system as you deem fit without problems. > > So I dont understand why your concern. > > Actually, replacing python on RHEL is a major endeavor.
Then don't do it. Just install Python 2.6. Who cares what version of Python the system utilities use? > Almost all Red > Hat utilities are written in python and depend on the specific system > version of python that they shipped. Thus if you want to upgrade python > you're going to break 80% of the system. > > Sure you can install Python from source alongside the system python, but > that's a maintenance nightmare for system administrators. No, it is not. It is trivial. The packages don't overlap at all. You run python2.6, easy_install-2.6, etc... and the app merrily runs. > I administer > some 30 RHEL instances, and compiling from source just isn't a good > option here. As for third-party RPMs, that's all fine and well as long > as you don't need any support from Red Hat. RH can only support > software they ship and certify. In my experience RedHat supports their system - *not* the software you run on it. So they don't care either way. > As for me, I don't need RH to support > my custom RPMs, so I think that's probably a fair compromise. It would > be nice to have a source (that's kept up to date security-wise) of > python packages that can be installed alongside RH system ones. Maybe > call it python26 or python28 or python31 and stick it in the EPEL > repository. I am supposing that if anyone wanted to do this, the EPEL > folks would be happy to let that person be the package maintainer. rpm -Uvh http://dl.iuscommunity.org/pub/ius/stable/Redhat/5/i386/ius-release-1-4.ius.el5.noarch.rpm yum -y install python26 python26-setuptools -- Adam Tauno Williams <awill...@whitemice.org> LPIC-1, Novell CLA <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com> OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list