Python vs. Fedora and CentOS

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 10:55 -0600, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 06/01/2010 05:01 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > Yes, we install Python 2.6 on CentOS and run a production app on it - no
> > problems.
> > rpm -Uvh
> > http://dl.iuscommunity.org/pub/ius/stable/Redhat/5/i386/ius-release-1-4.ius.el5.noarch.rpm
> > yum -y install python26 python26-setuptools
> Thanks for posting this link.  Very useful and interesting.
> The only problem I have is how do I tell what third-party repositories
> are to be trusted in my production systems?  And even more important,
> which repositories are actually going to keep up to date on security
> updates in the long run?   It's hard to know.

I don't know about "third-party repositories",  but IUS is solid.
They've been around since 2006.

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