fix python centos6 distribtest
diff --git a/tools/dockerfile/distribtest/python_centos6_x64/Dockerfile b/tools/dockerfile/distribtest/python_centos6_x64/Dockerfile
index 99306bb..79dae07 100644
--- a/tools/dockerfile/distribtest/python_centos6_x64/Dockerfile
+++ b/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