On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 19:18 -0500, Seth Nickell wrote:
Yum in rawhide has been broken by Python changes (caused by Python 2.4.0 brokenness, I believe) for the past 2+ weeks. Ordinarily a broken package shouldn't be a cause for list discussion, but in this case the breakage has been going on for a while and effectively halts the testing of other packages. Can we please resolve this one way or another so Fedora development can continue?
Relevant bug is: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138535
Sorry for the fuss...
You couldn't just add this to the bug? The bug appears to be in a beta release of python 2.4. I could put a couple of patches into yum but they'd just be a hold over until python gets fixed.
Well... it'd be much easier for a user running the current python to get a new yum RPM to be able to fix their system than to go through the dependency fun that is upgrading python when something like yum is "busted". I am OK with this not going into the upstream yum package, but it might be worth adding to our packages for the time being....
