[scl.org] 2 questions on software collections

[Langdon White]

On 12/26/2015 04:07 AM, Natxo Asenjo wrote:
> hi,
>
> 1st: foor rhel/centos 6 are software collections only available for 64 
> bit arch or are there plans for i686 too?
>

As far as Red Hat is concerned, we make decisions like this based on 
customer feedback. If you are a customer, feel free to file a bug/RFE 
through your usual channels and follow the PR announcements regarding 
plans. However, we are not the only contributors, so other people may 
plan to do i686 versions.

> 2nd: how do I switch permanently to the version of the sotfware 
> collection for a user? If I run
>
> $ scl enable rh-perl520 bash
> after logging off and on I get back to system perl version. Adding 
> that line to ~/.bash_profile seems to do the trick. Is this the 
> correct way to do it?
>

I wrote a quick blog post about this some time back. I think this is 
still something we would like to see a better solution(s) for.

http://developerblog.redhat.com/2014/03/19/permanently-enable-a-software-collection/


> Thanks for the software collection effort, it's going to be very helpful.
>

Glad you like them.. please help us promote them by mentioning them on 
social media, write blog posts, tell your friends, etc!

Langdon

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