<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Fred Rotbart <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rotbart@softbart.com">rotbart@softbart.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Dan,<br>
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Thanks for the help.<br>
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I had started building a lot of stuff from sources. However, the Python 2.6 I took from <a href="http://chrislea.com/2009/09/09/easy-python-2-6-django-on-centos-5/" target="_blank">http://chrislea.com/2009/09/09/easy-python-2-6-django-on-centos-5/</a>. Any advantage to building the Python from sources?<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Well, three reasons:<br><br>1) I needed a 64-bit install. Typically I've found that 64-bit pre-compiled binaries are less reliable than building 64-bit. This is the main reason I used a source as opposed to a pre-compiled binary (e.g from <a href="http://python.org">python.org</a> itself). <br>
<br>2) As explained at the top of Chris Lea's post, overwriting the system python on centOS with python26 is really bad. I really really needed to make sure that it didn't screw things up and so I decided to install in /opt, where a completely standard install would work fine and be sure not to interfere. To make a package install work while completely not interfering with the other system installs, putting
all the relevant byte-compiled dependencies in version-number-named
places throughout the distros, requires alot of finicky work. I'm not comfortable enough with yum to feel like I totally understood how to evaluate whether any given person's repo was likely to be "right". This is the main reason I would use a non-yum-based install vs. a repo install. <br>
<br>3) I wasn't aware of Chris Lea's work -- thank you so much for telling me
of it If I had known of it, perhaps I would
have used it (if there's a 64-bit version) -- but subject to the above provisos. <br><br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
BTW why did you use the Rightscale image rather than using the Amazon one?<br></blockquote><div><br>I've typically found Rightscale images to be more reliable than Amazon ones actually -- and more things I already need are on them. Which amazon image were you referring to? <br>
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- Fred<div class="im"><br>
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On 3/09/10 09:49 , Dan Yamins wrote:<br>
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Fred, sorry for the delay in reply.<br>
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I've put the instructions up here at this google doc<br>
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<a href="https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Aa_xSFd7IOCfZGhzN3JwanBfMTA1ZjRwNWp6dGo&hl=en&authkey=CI2p-t8J" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Aa_xSFd7IOCfZGhzN3JwanBfMTA1ZjRwNWp6dGo&hl=en&authkey=CI2p-t8J</a><br>
<<a href="https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Aa_xSFd7IOCfZGhzN3JwanBfMTA1ZjRwNWp6dGo&hl=en&authkey=CI2p-t8J" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Aa_xSFd7IOCfZGhzN3JwanBfMTA1ZjRwNWp6dGo&hl=en&authkey=CI2p-t8J</a>><br>
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Let me know if you can't access this doc.<br>
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On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Fred Rotbart <<a href="mailto:rotbart@softbart.com" target="_blank">rotbart@softbart.com</a><br></div><div class="im">
<mailto:<a href="mailto:rotbart@softbart.com" target="_blank">rotbart@softbart.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
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Hi Dan,<br>
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Did you happen to make a cookbook for making the CentOS StarCluster AMI?<br>
If so can you make it available?<br>
<br>
- Fred<br>
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