Bug 923976

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python-pip-1.3.1-1.el6 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 6.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/python-pip-1.3.1-1.el6

Crashes on el5, not updated:

Python 2.4.3 (#1, Jan  9 2013, 06:49:54) 
[GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-54)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pip
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pip/__init__.py", line 12, in ?
    from pip.commands import commands, get_similar_commands, get_summaries
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pip/commands/__init__.py", line 6, in ?
    from pip.commands.bundle import BundleCommand
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pip/commands/bundle.py", line 5, in ?
    from pip.commands.install import InstallCommand
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 5, in ?
    from pip.req import InstallRequirement, RequirementSet, parse_requirements
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pip/req.py", line 1292
    skip_regex = options.skip_requirements_regex if options else None
                                                  ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Package python-pip-1.3.1-1.el6:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=epel-testing python-pip-1.3.1-1.el6'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2013-5562/python-pip-1.3.1-1.el6
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

talked with tflink on IRC about el5.

He's leaning towards retiring python-pip for EL5.  Then it would be possible for someone interested to create a python26-pip package if they wished.  That would mean that installing modules via pip would only be possible for the python26 interpreter, not the python-2.4 that ships with RHEL5.  But for a lot of developers, that might not be so bad.  If someone really wants pip as an rpm for python-2.4 they'd need to either port the current pip to python-2.4 or backport this security fix, backport pip's change to use pypi's https url and check the SSL hostname, and fix pip's implementation of ssl_match_hostname to either use the python-backports-ssl-match_hostname package or to not be vulnerable to CVE-2013-2099: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=963260#c14

Let me know what is decided here so that I can advise the python-virtualenv maintainer what to do for these vulnerabilities and issues in the python-virtualenv epel5 package (which is bundling an this older, insecure version of pip).

We have no problem with either retiring it or backporting, so I suppose the answer is whether or not anyone wants to invest the effort there.  My personal opinion is that not having python-pip available is better than having it available and unfixed.

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