[CentOS] Upgrading MySQLdb

Mon Jun 28 13:54:07 UTC 2010
Whit Blauvelt <whit at transpect.com>

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 08:58:45AM -0400, Jim Perrin wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Susan Day <suzieprogrammer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi;
> > I've got MySQLdb installed (bridge to Python) and I can't figure out how to
> > upgrade it. I did a find and got these paths:
> >
> > /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.6beta2-py2.6.egg/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/mysqldb.py
> > /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.6beta2-py2.6.egg/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/mysqldb.pyc
> 
> 
> Where did you get python 2.6 from? CentOS has 2.4.3 by default, and
> most repos that have newer python packages drop them in /opt or
> similar to avoid clobbering the default setup (and yum).

And if you install Python 2.6.x from source, it by default goes into
/usr/local/, not /usr/. 

(Wouldn't it be nice if CentOS had 2.6.5 instead 2.4.3? Python improved
dramatically between those two. My systems all get Python 2.6.5 alongside
2.4.3 because (a) 2.6.5 has a lot of useful features I'm not going to refuse
to use just for CentOS purity, and (b) it's easier to write Python
3.x-compatible code in 2.6.5. Now, if I were going through the package
management system to build 2.6.5 wouldn't that risk _confusing_ the CentOS
stuff with dependencies on 2.4.3 where simply installing to /usr/local/
appears to nicely avoid that?)

Whit