Yum broken = no testing

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Thu Nov 25 01:33:05 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 19:18 -0500, Seth Nickell wrote:
> Yum in rawhide has been broken by Python changes (caused by Python 2.4.0
> brokenness, I believe) for the past 2+ weeks. Ordinarily a broken
> package shouldn't be a cause for list discussion, but in this case the
> breakage has been going on for a while and effectively halts the testing
> of other packages. Can we please resolve this one way or another so
> Fedora development can continue?
> 
> Relevant bug is:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138535
> 
> Sorry for the fuss...
> 

You couldn't just add this to the bug?  The bug appears to be in a beta
release of python 2.4. I could put a couple of patches into yum but
they'd just be a hold over until python gets fixed.


-sv





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