The DevOps team wants to update to the latest Python as a rule as a security 
from security mitigation technique.    I hope that makes sense.

From: Brian Gollaher [mailto:bgoll...@redhat.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2017 11:50 AM
To: Davis, Daniel (NIH/NLM) [C] <daniel.da...@nih.gov>; sclorg@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [scl.org] Python "latest" SCLo

Hi Dan.  May I ask a question?  Is your security team looking for a fix to a 
specific security problem or CVE or are they asking that you run the latest 
version as a rule?

thanks,
Brian

On 06/29/2017 11:24 AM, Davis, Daniel (NIH/NLM) [C] wrote:
I've been lurking on this list for a while, and I wanted to bring myself up to 
date.   I noticed some talk of a community SCL for a "latest" Python, which 
would be a non-patched pure build of Python that is kept up-to-date by the 
community.   Where is that at?   Who is leading it?   How can I help?

For background, we've used rh-python34 for some time, but our security team 
recently dinged us for sticking with Python 3.4.2, and my DevOps team (who have 
less time due to tickets), just recompiled Python 3.4.6 blind to get past the 
security problem.   I would have argued we should move to rh-python35, but that 
would eventually suffer the same problem.   What we need is a distribution that 
keeps up to date, but is still distributed as an rpm.

Thanks,

Dan Davis, Systems/Applications Architect (Contractor),
Office of Computer and Communications Systems,
National Library of Medicine, NIH





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