On 09/14/2017 01:41 PM, Riccardo Vianello wrote:

> True, but there shouldn't be any strong need for using the system python
> for running application software. Python 2.7 (together with python 3) has
> been available to RHEL6 subscribers since almost five years, as part of the
> Red Hat Software Collections (also available to non-subscribers from the
> upstream CentOS/Fedora repositories). A detailed discussion is available
> from this post
> http://www.curiousefficiency.org/posts/2015/04/stop-supporting-python26.html
> 
> And the anaconda python distribution of course provides another alternative.

All great when it's one computer and that one's your own personal laptop.

> # yum ls \*python27\*
> ...
> python27.x86_64                    2.7.13-2.ius.el6                           
>                      @salt-2015.8  
> python27-babel.noarch              0.9.4-5.2.el6                              
>                      @salt-2015.8  
> python27-chardet.noarch            2.2.1-3.el6                                
>                      @salt-2015.8  
> python27-crypto.x86_64             2.6.1-4.el6                                
>                      @salt-2015.8  
> python27-futures.noarch            3.0.3-2.el6                                
>                      @salt-2015.8  
> python27-jinja2.noarch             2.8.1-2.el6                                
>                      @salt-2015.8  
> python27-libs.x86_64               2.7.13-2.ius.el6                           
>                      @salt-2015.8  
> python27-markupsafe.x86_64         0.11-11.el6                                
>                      @salt-2015.8  
> python27-msgpack.x86_64            0.4.6-2.el6                                
>                      @salt-2015.8  
> python27-psutil.x86_64             5.2.2-1.ius.el6                            
>                      @salt-2015.8  
> python27-pycurl.x86_64             7.19.0-10.el6                              
>                      @salt-2015.8  
> python27-requests.noarch           2.6.0-4.el6                                
>                      @salt-2015.8  
> python27-six.noarch                1.9.0-3.el6                                
>                      @salt-2015.8  
> python27-tornado.x86_64            4.2.1-3.el6                                
>                      @salt-2015.8  
> python27-urllib3.noarch            1.10.2-2.el6                               
>                      @salt-2015.8  
> python27-zmq.x86_64                14.5.0-3.el6                               
>                      @salt-2015.8  
...
> python27-babel.noarch              0.9.6-7.sc1.el6                            
>                      centos-sclo-rh
> python27-pip.noarch                9.0.1-1.ius.el6                            
>                      salt-2015.8   
...
> python27-python.x86_64             2.7.13-3.el6                               
>                      centos-sclo-rh
> python27-python-babel.noarch       0.9.6-7.sc1.el6                            
>                      centos-sclo-rh
> python27-python-jinja2.noarch      2.6-10.sc1.el6                             
>                      centos-sclo-rh
> python27-python-libs.x86_64        2.7.13-3.el6                               
>                      centos-sclo-rh
> python27-python-markupsafe.x86_64  0.11-11.sc1.el6                            
>                      centos-sclo-rh
> python27-python-pip.noarch         8.1.2-1.el6                                
>                      centos-sclo-rh
...

Any guesses as to how many things will break in my infrastructure
manglement setup (saltstack) if I enable Software Collections and some
of those get updated from SCL and some: from Salt?

And don't get me started on PIP.
-- 
Dimitri Maziuk
Programmer/sysadmin
BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu

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