Just a quick question, but what feature of Python 2.7 did the hook
depend on and could it have been re-written to only need Python 2.6
instead?  Seems like a lot of work, and now a bunch more dependencies
and hacks to rebuild this system when/if it dies, just to make a
developer happy.  Not saying this is bad... but maybe saying that core
production systems should *try* to stay as simple as possible.

And no, I don't always follow my own advice here.  Just trying to get
you to give us more info on your process here, since I think it's a
good example of the balance we all have to try and achieve in our
$WORK.

John


Eric> Thank you for your prompt replies!  Karl, the iuscommunity repo is exactly
Eric> what I needed.  Also, it has some other packages that I've had to install
Eric> directly so this is even better!  thanks guys, see you next meeting.

Eric> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Karl Hiramoto <karl@hiramoto.org> wrote:

>> On 06/27/2013 03:47 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
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>> On 06/27/2013 09:34 AM, Eric Martin wrote:
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>> Hi All,
>>
>> The subversion server at my office is on a CentOS 6 server, and a software
>> developer wrote a hook in python for it.  The hook requires python 2.7,
>> but CentOS 6 only has 2.6.6 (python-2.6.6-36.el6 to be exact).
>>
>> I grabbed python-2.7.2-5.2.fc16.src.rpm from Fedora 16 and am trying to
>> roll my own via instructions I found on the CentOS wiki.  All is good
>> except that it requires db4.8, and that's not out for RHEL6 either.
>>
>> >From where I stand, it looks like my options are: 1) wait this out until
>> either Python or a dependency are pushed up, but when is that? 2) rebuild
>> this package with the deps, but I'm not quite sure how to roll a -devel
>> package 3) roll my own package from scratch 4) install python 2.7 in an
>> alternate location and point to it for this script
>>
>> Since this is a production server, I'd rather no do any hacks on this.
>> Does anybody know how the release schedule works, or have any other
>> advice?
>>
>> Thanks in advance, -- Eric Martin
>>
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>> Look at Software Collections. Not sure if they have python2.7 yet though.
>> https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Developer_Toolset/1/html/Software_Collections_Guide/index.html
>>
>>
>> Some SRPMS of python 2.7
>>
>> http://dl.iuscommunity.org/pub/ius/stable/CentOS/6/SRPMS/repoview/
>>
>>
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