On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Axel Thimm wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 06:05:52PM -0500, Connie Sieh wrote: > > RPM can request certain versions of packages. The smart and "other" have > > requested python 2.3 . You have to ask them about the python 2.3 vs 2.4 > > issue. > > rpm automatically extracts the required python abi from packages with > python content and this is 2.3 for RHEL4/SL4. This isn't a choice the > upstream projects make, but more of the vendor. So these packages and > more are properly asking to find a RHEL4/SL4 compatible system which > one w/o python 2.3 is not anymore. > > If Michael would try an rpm -Va on his system it would reveal all > now-broken python packages. yum only reveals those that are to be > installed/updated, e.g. just the tip of the iceberg. > I do not understand why people do a "--nodeps" and then wonder why things are broken. -Connie Sieh