hey Matt, just to ensure i'm clear, after the rebuild do you just need to install the rpm-python26 rpm or does it create rebuilt versions of the yum and rpm distributions as well that all need to also be updated.
if it's only rpm-python then I may give your build a shot, but I tried a bunch of things and I assume that there are newer versions of rpm libraries needed as well which look to be what your build is doing ;-) . That doesn't look like fun, pretty impressive though ;-) On Friday, March 8, 2019 at 2:22:33 PM UTC-8, Matt Martz wrote: > > I did some experimenting with this about a year ago. I have a repo that > has a playbook that can build the packages for EL5 using python2.6 from > EPEL. > > NOTE: I don't necessarily recommend this, it was an experiment to see if > it could be done > > WARNING: Proceed at your own risk ;) > > https://github.com/sivel/el5-python26-rpm > > The last release of Ansible to support EL5 natively was Ansible 2.3 > > On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 4:16 PM S C Rigler <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> If you can install a newer python on the machines you should be able >> to manage them by setting the inventory variable >> "ansible_python_interpreter" for them to the path of the alternate >> python interpreter. >> >> On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 2:25 PM Adam E <[email protected] <javascript:>> >> wrote: >> > >> > hey there, i'm trying to manage a bunch of centos5/rhel5 systems with >> ansible 2.7.5 >> > >> > On the target host I am able to install python 2.6 from epel which is >> all good and ansible runs just fine for most stuff. The issue is with >> anything related to packages (ie . package_facts and package). They both >> rely on the "rpm" python library. >> > >> > >> > Problem is, I can't figure out how to install this library on centos >> 5. It seems the library is not available in epel >> > >> > I tried building from source but I then get the error below: >> > # python26 >> > Python 2.6.8 (unknown, Nov 7 2012, 14:47:45) >> > [GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-52)] on linux2 >> > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >> > >>> import rpm >> > rpm.py:15: UserWarning: The RPM Python bindings are not currently >> available via PyPI. >> > >> > >> > Please install them with your distro package manager (typically called >> > 'python2-rpm' or 'python3-rpm'), and ensure that any virtual >> environments >> > needing the API are configured to be able to see the system site >> packages >> > directory. >> > >> > >> > warnings.warn(warning_msg) >> > >>> >> > >> > >> > If I can't get this working, I guess my only options are to either just >> not manage packages on the legacy centos/rhel5 boxes or see about running >> an older version (multiple versions) of ansible within AWX. >> > >> > Just wondering if anyone has went through this already and can provide >> any tips. >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Ansible Project" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/18a045ee-1f63-437b-a8c5-d10880e5cd50%40googlegroups.com >> . >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ansible Project" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAFbiokdgxMddo%3D-DP%2B5LVrGqyL_4PoHAddii%2BWH2cscEKhtbyA%40mail.gmail.com >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > -- > Matt Martz > @sivel > sivel.net > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/35f77629-8cd9-4407-9645-a901d5d315da%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
