safe to install rawhide python2.4 on FC3?

[Neal Becker]

Anyone know if it should be safe to install devel python2.4 rpms onto FC3?

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Sa, den 11.12.2004 schrieb Neal Becker um 23:30:

>  Anyone know if it should be safe to install devel python2.4 rpms onto
> FC3? 
If you want to break a fair part of what makes Fedora Fedora ...

For serious, don't do it. Why do you want or even do you need to?
python.org has 2.4 RPMs which shall be candidates to be installed in
parallel to the system Python, so not exchanging the important Python
2.3.4 parts FC3 comes with.

Alexander


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[Neal Becker]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

>  Am Sa, den 11.12.2004 schrieb Neal Becker um 23:30:
>  
> > Anyone know if it should be safe to install devel python2.4 rpms onto
> > FC3?
>  
>  If you want to break a fair part of what makes Fedora Fedora ...
>  
>  For serious, don't do it. Why do you want or even do you need to?
>  python.org has 2.4 RPMs which shall be candidates to be installed in
>  parallel to the system Python, so not exchanging the important Python
>  2.3.4 parts FC3 comes with.
>  
>  Alexander
>  
>   
I'm trying to install on x86_64.  python.org 2.4 SRPMs are not correct for
x86_64, they don't build due to confusion over /usr/lib64.

There are quite a few patches in rawhide python 2.4, and I don't know what
they are all for, so I was hoping that I could just use the 2.4 version
as-is.  I guess I could take the rawhide version, modify configure to use
altinstall (or whatever it was called to install under alt name), then
modify the spec so that it doesn't overwrite /usr/bin/python.