python

Dan Burcaw yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Thu Aug 1 17:29:04 2002


On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 09:06, Daniel Resare wrote:
> tor 2002-08-01 klockan 16.21 skrev David Dahl:
> > Has anyone using YDL 2.3 upgraded python to 2.2?  Did it break anything?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > David
> 
> 
> Haven't tried it, but since it is a redhat derivate and redhat uses
> python as it's in hose language of choice some of redhat's code will
> probably break, tools such as redhat-config-network and the printing
> subsystem are in danger.
> 
> I would suggest that you upgrade the python2 package instead, which is
> designed to co-exist with python and not breaking old stuff. Try to
> rebuild
> http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/redhat/linux/7.3/en/os/i386/SRPMS/python2-2.2-16.src.rpm and if it works, it is probably safe to install :)

Why rebuild this when we have python2 on the Tasty CD?
Unless you need the very latest python2...