Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 released

Posted Dec 8, 2011 10:47 UTC (Thu) by Felix (guest, #36445)
In reply to: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 released by SEJeff
Parent article: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 released

> EPEL has a parallel installable python26 package

That's only relevant for RHEL 5, RHEL 6 comes with Python 2.6 by default.

Though if someone (e.g. dps) needs some other version of Python, he should package that like python26 for EPEL5 instead of replacing the main Python interpreter.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 released

Posted Dec 8, 2011 13:07 UTC (Thu) by dps (guest, #5725) [Link] (1 responses)

Duncan actively wants to minimise the software installed---the boxes in question are internet facing systems. Being forced to install things like isci-initiator tools on boxes that no use for them is very bad.

All boxes in question either have no SAN storage or full feature HBAs, so the iscsi initiator tools are pure bloat and security issues. You probably can't actually afford any of the boxen in question, although you might have talked to one.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 released

Posted Dec 9, 2011 16:50 UTC (Fri) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

Wouldn't it depend on the software being SUID or running and exposed to the network to be a security issue? Just having the software installed doesn't do anything if it doesn't cross a security boundary.

You can certainly say that having extra software installed offends your sense of cleanliness but that isn't a technical issue.