Cloud-init on RHEL5

[Jan van Eldik]

Thanks for feedback, python 2.6 it is :)

I think we should have something by next week.

          cheers, Jan



On 07/13/2012 06:44 PM, Garrett Holmstrom wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 4:37 AM, Pádraig Brady<P at draigbrady.com>  wrote:
>> On 07/13/2012 09:28 AM, Jan van Eldik wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> As of the last time I looked, a patch set that makes cloud-init work
> with python 2.4 would be quite pervasive, not to mention that the last
> version of python-boto to work with 2.4 is quite old.  EPEL already
> has a python 2.6 stack, so I agree with the rest of you:  we might as
> well use it.  ;-)
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