Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 09:02:18AM -0700, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >> So I need python 2.5.1, and all of its dependecies. >> >> And 2.5.1 is at least in FC8. So this leads to wanting to try to do the >> update right via yum, thus needing a repo. Does such a thing exist? I >> find a directory out there, but no repodata directory with it: >> >> http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/fedora/updates/testing/8/ >> >> > > I'm guessing you'll spark a nice discussion on this, but in general, > replacing or upgrading the system version of Python is a bad idea. > Many OS tools are written against the specific version of Python that > comes with your version of CentOS... updating it not only would result > in lots of complaints from RPM, but probably would break a lot of stuff > too. > > I'm not sure if there's a "great" way to have concurrent version of > Python installed cleanly or not... the Python project itself used to > maintain some RPM's and a Yum repo, but I believe that project is > somewhat dormant and last time I tried it it still wasn't a real smooth > process. > > I think most will recommend you build from source and install somewhere > like /opt or /usr/local... How do I find out if Python 2.4.3 contains abi?