On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 10:52 +1300, Mark Derricutt wrote: > seth vidal wrote: > > >>a fix is here > >>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138535 > >> > > No, that's not a good fix. It patches python, that's probably not the > > best place, despite the fact that it looks like a backward compat break. > > -sv > > Seth - has anything further been done on this? > > Another "fix" which isn't entirely a good fix would be to have a new > build of yum that did a version check on urllib and acted appropriately > ( better than a new yum which explicitly requires the newer > python/urllib, but not by much ). > > That being said, I'm sure this urllib change will be breaking more than > just yum so patching just 'yum' isn't a solution either. > > Has this been bugzilla'd with fedora or upstream with python at all? > No, It's been refiled as a python bug. I'm not sure of its status right now. -sv