On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 03:23:16PM -0400, Joseph Tate wrote: > In order to back out the changes after using the file you sent, I had to > rpm -e yum, then reinstall. I don't know why that is, but it may help > you in your search. Well, I really doubt that, actually. Here is what I bet happened: 1) by default, yum only installs .pyc files 2) I sent a .py file 3) when you ran it as root, it overwrote the original .pyc file with the compiled version of the new .py (because the new .py was newer than the old .pyc) 4) you then removed the .py 5) when you ran again, it was still effectively using the new code This is really a non-issue. The file should be a completely sane drop-in replacement and can't really do any "extra damage" except for the standard python byte-compiling described above. You could have alternatively made a backup copy of urlgrabber.pyc (although I'll grant you that that's not obvious to non-python programmers) or just left the newly written urlgrabber.pyc there. It won't hurt anything. In fact, it appears to fix your problem :) > The easiest way to test is to change the yum.conf file to some > non-existant host. Are you missing a few words here? Honestly, I don't think it's really worth any more time. The check needed to be there. It's there now. I don't REALLY need to see it happen because I'm completely convinced it CAN happen. If you're happy, I'm happy. -Michael -- Michael Stenner Office Phone: 919-660-2513 Duke University, Dept. of Physics mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxx Box 90305, Durham N.C. 27708-0305
