Is there any reason yum maintains its own lib path instead of just
installing libraries in it's own yum namespace in the standard sys.path?
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 13:48, Joe Cooper wrote:
> Hi Seth and all,
>
> I've upgraded to the latest snapshot on a Red Hat 7.2 and Red Hat 8.0
> box (both fully erratified)...and this change is causing problems on
> both of them:
>
> 2002-12-05 13:00 skvidal
>
> * bin/: yum, yum-arch:
> fix append vs insert to avoid namespace collision
>
> I get the following error on the 7.2 server:
>
> Traceback (innermost last):
> File "/usr/sbin/yum-arch", line 21, in ?
> sys.path.insert('/usr/lib/yum')
> TypeError: 2-sequence, 12-sequence
>
> Or the following error on the 8.0 client:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/bin/yum", line 21, in ?
> sys.path.insert('/usr/lib/yum')
> TypeError: insert() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given)
>
> Looks like maybe that line should be:
>
> sys.path.insert(0,'/usr/lib/yum')
>
> (I'm a bit moronic on all things pythonic, so I reserve the right to be
> wrong.)
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Miles Egan <miles@xxxxxxxxx>
