Release cycle for RHEL / CentOS 6
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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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... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlHMQm0ACgkQrlYvE4MpobNvLgCglcqbTSagpuUwd4dr6PwJRzdJ nigAoKTFFDR2CQFtE2PTip7m7ZGvhajp =FZ/y -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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:
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...
Some SRPMS of python 2.7 http://dl.iuscommunity.org/pub/ius/stable/CentOS/6/SRPMS/repoview/
Thank you for your prompt replies! Karl, the iuscommunity repo is exactly what I needed. Also, it has some other packages that I've had to install directly so this is even better! thanks guys, see you next meeting. 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:
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...
Some SRPMS of python 2.7
http://dl.iuscommunity.org/pub/ius/stable/CentOS/6/SRPMS/repoview/
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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:
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...
Some SRPMS of python 2.7
http://dl.iuscommunity.org/pub/ius/stable/CentOS/6/SRPMS/repoview/
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Hi John, The function requested / required was subprocess.check_output. My developer used jshints to do a lint type syntax check on code in a pre-commit hook. With the ius repository, this wasn't a big deal at all. I'm actually surprised that RHEL / CentOS don't support python2.7 since it's been out for 3 years. Hope that helps, let me know if you were looking for more. On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 9:15 AM, John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org> wrote:
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:
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...
Some SRPMS of python 2.7
http://dl.iuscommunity.org/pub/ius/stable/CentOS/6/SRPMS/repoview/
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