On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 06:48:35PM +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: > On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 10:06:12AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > The let me rephrase: > > > > 1.97+ is for rpm >= 4.1.1 and python2.x > > 1.0 is for rpm <=4.0.4 and python >= 1.5 > > > > how's that? > > There was a patch by Michael Stenner back in March (in the keepalive code), > that made the "2.0" versions compatible to the older python. Does it still > apply to the newer releases? That made the yum 2.x version of keepalive.py compatible with python 2.2.1 (when it was written for python 2.2.2). Yum 1.x uses python 1.5.2. Furthermore, that really only addressed one small issue in the keepalive code. It was by no means a comprehensive yum patch. The problem is that so many things vary from RHL 7.x to RHL 9 (python, and rpm being the biggies) that it's really hard to treat them all. It may have been possible to deal with them nicely and still maintain a single distributed version (the urlgrabber.py file does this, but it doesn't have to worry about rpm, only python) but you're just trading one kind of pain for another. Either you deal with two similar code bases (and make most changes twice) or you have one code base that you pack full of 'if' statements and derived classes. It may be worthwhile to try and avoid future divergence, but I completely agree with seth's choice to maintain two separate yums for 7.x and >= 8.0. It would be far far far (FAR) too painful to recombine them now. hhmmm... wandered a bit there, didn't I? :) -Michael -- Michael Stenner Office Phone: 919-660-2513 Duke University, Dept. of Physics mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxx Box 90305, Durham N.C. 27708-0305
