On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 09:40 -0700, Jamie Bohr wrote: > Hello, > > My department has chosen Plone as a CMS tool. We already have a RHEL > V4 server we would like to host this on. RHEL V4 comes with Python > 2.3.4, Plone requires Zope which requires Python 2.4.3. I could not > find an RPM package for it, so before I compile and install it I was > going to remove Python 2.3.4; there are tons of dependences I would > rather not remove. I don't want to mess up this system because it is > a production server (used very little) and looking for guidance on how > to proceed. Should I install yum and point it to some Fedora sources > for Python, Zope and Plone? Is there a source out there for newer > Python, Zope and Plone that I did not find (I googled for them)? > > I would like to install all the packages by RPM, makes it easier to > track what is installed on a system. Do not replace the system Python with a newer one. You probably could install a newer python and its entire tree in another location on the filesystem (maybe /usr/local or /opt ??) but leave the system python intact or you will likely end up crying very bitter tears. I do not know of an rpm packaging for python that puts it in another location but they probably could be built w/o too much trouble by just redefining a few rpm macros before building them - and possibly change the name of the package in spec file to make things easier on you.
