"Software Collections" for installing multiple (newer) environments on RHEL

[Tom Buskey]

Timely for me.  I was just looking into creating an alternate MySQL server
to run alongside the RHEL supplied mysql.  We need 5.6, but the system
software uses an older one.




On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) <
greg at freephile.com> wrote:

> I've been growing my Python chops lately, and discovered this new
> development which I thought share-worthy.
>
> If you've ever spent any time with RHEL 6.x, you know how some important
> packages are pretty old (e.g. Python 2.6 instead of 2.7 or even 3.x).
>  Installing multiple versions of Python is possible, and there are a bunch
> of ways to do it - so it's often confusing.  Virtualenv is the 'best' way
> to be able to run multiple distinct Python environments on a single host
> since it also gives you the ability to load specific dependencies into each
> environment.  While that's great, there is also a new option specifically
> for RedHat called Software Collections that works kinda the same way as
> Virtualenv (environment shim) and allows you to install collections of
> packages for Python as well as other systems like Postgres, Nodejs, MariaDB
> etc.
>
> With Software Collections, you can build and concurrently install multiple
> versions of the same software components on your system. Software
> Collections have no impact on the system versions of the packages installed
> by any of the conventional RPM package management utilities.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lcK8L3XDek Ryan White (RedHat) at PyCon
> 2014
> Guide:
>
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Contributor_Documentation/1/html-single/Software_Collections_Guide/index.html
>
>
>
>
> Greg Rundlett
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