Merge pull request #5208 from jtattermusch/fix_python_centos6_release

Backport: Fix python centos6 distribtest in release-0_13

tools/dockerfile/distribtest/python_centos6_x64/Dockerfile

@@ -29,10 +29,18 @@
 
 FROM centos:6
 
-RUN yum install -y python
+RUN yum -y install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm
 
-RUN rpm -ivh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
-RUN yum install -y python-pip
+# Vanilla CentOS6 only has python 2.6 and we don't support that.
+RUN yum -y install yum -y install https://centos6.iuscommunity.org/ius-release.rpm
+RUN yum install -y python27
 
-RUN pip install --upgrade pip
+# Override python2.6
+RUN ln -s /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/local/bin/python
+RUN ln -s /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/local/bin/python2
 
+# Install pip
+RUN curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python -
+
+# "which" command required by python's run_distrib_test.sh
+RUN yum install -y which