Jim, > They may be able to be installed side by side, but > if he's updating via > yum, it's trying to update the old package, not > install a new one beside > it. This would be causing the grief. You can install python 2.3 side by side, but you just do an rpm -i to install python 2.3 -- yum will not do it. Come to think of it, I can imagine why RedHat would hard code python 2.2 into the system components that use python. RedHat wants zero risk that some future python upgrade would break RedHat -- RedHat's customer's would blame RedHat. So RedHat cast the python version in concrete, and this potential problem is out of the way. I am OK with that, given RedHat's role in the open source world. Rick --- yum-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 22:26:35 -0500 > From: Jim Perrin <perrin@xxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: [Yum] python 2.2 plus 2.3 on RedHat > To: "Yellowdog Updater, Modified" > <yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: > <1DF0F5864B7622696B483CFC@[192.168.1.11]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; > format=flowed > > They may be able to be installed side by side, but > if he's updating via > yum, it's trying to update the old package, not > install a new one beside > it. This would be causing the grief. > > -- > Jim Perrin > Ohio University >
