Cloud-init on RHEL5

[Jan van Eldik]

Hi Joshua,

cloud-init-0.6.3-0.9.bzr532.el5 exists in EPEL5, it uses python26 from 
EPEL5.

           cheers, Jan

On 08/07/2012 07:33 PM, Joshua Harlow wrote:
> Correct currently its targeted for 2.6 or greater.
>
> RHEL5 I might have to work on soon (someone people here want it) but I
> am really not looking forward to that, haha, and will pushback on it if
> I can :-P (everyone should be able to install 26 or greater)
>
> On 7/13/12 4:37 AM, "Pádraig Brady" <P at draigBrady.com> wrote:
>
>     On 07/13/2012 09:28 AM, Jan van Eldik wrote:
>     >  Hi Padraig, all,
>     >
>     > > cloud-init for RHEL (derivatives) was
>     [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/cloud-init-0.6.3-0.7.bzr532.el6
>     released] and has received successful testing.
>     > > Also progressing in parallel is a significant
>     [https://code.launchpad.net/~cloud-init/cloud-init/rework cloud-init
>     rework]
>     > > (374 commits as of 27 June) focusing on Red Hat consumability.
>     >
>     >  This sounds very good, thanks to all who contributed.
>     >
>     >  Do you know it the cloud-init rework will include support for
>     RHEL5? We would like to contribute to that, but we are not sure what
>     the best way forward is.
>     >
>     >  It seems there are different ways to make cloud-init work under RHEL5:
>     >
>     >  - make it work w/ the system python24.
>     >  - make it work w/ python26 from EPEL5
>     >
>     >  We have a preference for the second option (as it is more
>     forward-looking), but there may be constraints we have not considered.
>     >
>     >  How do people feel about this?
>
>     I didn't notice anything in the rework specific to python 2.4
>     I also notice that Amazon's variant specifies /usr/bin/python2.6
>     So I think at this stage python 2.6 is the earliest considered.
>
>     cheers,
>     Pádraig.
>