This question applies specifically to RHEL 3.0 (actually Whitebox), but also generally to Redhat and probably pretty much every distribution that uses python for distribution-related tasks (configuration managers, rpm package management, yum, etc).
So I want to upgrade to python 2.4 on Whitebox 3.0. Ideally I would like python to live in /usr/bin and replace the python 2.2 that ships with RHEL entirely. This gets pretty infeasable when you consider how many packages depend on python 2.2: cd /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages rpm -qf * | sort | uniq alchemist-1.0.27-1 authconfig-4.3.7-1 ethereal-0.10.3-0.30E.1 file Ft is not owned by any package file _xmlplus is not owned by any package kudzu-1.1.22.2-1 libuser-0.51.7-1 libxml2-python-2.5.10-6 mod_python-3.0.3-3.ent newt-0.51.5-1 parted-1.6.3-29 pygtk2-1.99.16-8 pyOpenSSL-0.5.1-8 pyorbit-1.99.3-5 python-2.2.3-5 python-optik-1.4.1-2 pyxf86config-0.3.5-1 redhat-config-printer-gui-0.6.47.3.19-1 rhnlib-1.5-1.1.WB1 rhpl-0.110.4-1 rpm-python-4.2.2-0.14.WB1 up2date-4.3.19-1.WB1 As best I can tell, I have 2 options: 1) Install python 2.4 from source over /usr/bin/python. Rebuild *all* of the packages listed above from srpms and reinstall them. 2) Give up and install python 2.4 in /usr/local. This leaves me in the awkward situation of having to ensure that all our in-house scripts, all the time use /usr/local/bin/python. I don't suppose there is a simple, rpm package based approach to fixing this? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
