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

[Jim Sheldon]

We had been using our own custom built python 2.7 RPMs under CentOS 6.
 I recently moved everything to the python27 SCL with zero problems!
Fewer RPMs to maintain ourselves is a good thing.

Jim

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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