On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 08:47:27AM -0500, David Relson wrote: > Hi Michael, > > Your quick response is appreciated. However it ain't so easy :-( > > After moving keepalive.py* out of the way and editing Makefile to remove > the reference to it, I ran "make && make install". So far, fine. Then > I try the biggie "yum list updates": > > [root@osage emacs]# yum list updates > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/yum", line 22, in ? > import yummain > ImportError: Bad magic number in /usr/share/yum/yummain.pyc I understand that you have solved the problem differently, but I actually meant you to delete the _installed_ files.... ie, to to ahead and install as normal, but then simply remove the installed keepalive.py and .pyc. Urlgrabber does a check at runtime and if keepalive isn't there, it's simply not used. -Michael -- Michael Stenner Office Phone: 919-660-2513 Duke University, Dept. of Physics mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxx Box 90305, Durham N.C. 27708-0305