[Users] Updated contributed Scientific Linux 6 OS Templates with Software Collections

[Scott Dowdle]

Greetings,

I updated my contributed Scientific Linux 6 (32-bit and 64-bit) OS Templates.  While there were some package updates that were done since the last rebuild the exciting addition to today is that Scientific Linux announced on Oct. 17th that they had built all of the "Software Collections" packages that Red Hat had released for RHEL6.  What is software collections?  For more info see:

https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Developer_Guide/chap-RHSCL.html

With the software collections repo added to the Scientific Linux 6 OS Template one can easily install:

mariadb55, mysql55, nodejs010, perl516, php54, postgresql92, python27, python33, ruby193

That makes EL6 a much more flexible server environment.

It appears CentOS is also working on offering Software Collections packages but they aren't done yet.  If and when they are available, I'll add that repo to my contributed CentOS 6 OS Templates.

Please note no additional packages have been installed other than the yum-conf-softwarecollections-1.0-1.el6.noarch.rpm package provided by Scientific Linux which includes the repo files needed to access the new packages/repos.

You can find the updated OS Templates in the standard contributed OS Templates directory:

http://download.openvz.org/template/precreated/contrib/

They are:

scientific-6-x86-20131025.tar.xz	25-Oct-2013 15:42 	103M	 
scientific-6-x86-20131025.tar.xz.asc	25-Oct-2013 15:42 	198 	 
scientific-6-x86_64-20131025.tar.xz	25-Oct-2013 15:42 	107M	 
scientific-6-x86_64-20131025.tar.xz.asc	25-Oct-2013 15:42 	198 	 

Enjoy,
-- 
Scott Dowdle
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