Yum broken = no testing

[Matthew Mundy]

It should be noted, only http is broken, ftp still functions and there 
are rawhide ftp mirrors.

Christopher Aillon wrote:

> seth vidal wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>
>
> Well...  it'd be much easier for a user running the current python to 
> get a new yum RPM to be able to fix their system than to go through 
> the dependency fun that is upgrading python when something like yum is 
> "busted".  I am OK with this not going into the upstream yum package, 
> but it might be worth adding to our packages for the time being....
>