[et-mgmt-tools] CentOS-4 rebuild experience -> python2.3 too old?

[Tru Huynh]

Hello

I am trying to rebuild koan/cobbler on CentOS-4 i386...

downloaded files:
http://cobbler.et.redhat.com/download/cobbler-0.2.3-1.src.rpm 
http://cobbler.et.redhat.com/download/koan-0.2.1-1.src.rpm

rpmbuild --rebuild  cobbler-0.2.3-1.src.rpm
rpmbuild --rebuild koan-0.2.1-1.src.rpm

works fine.

rpm -ivh koan-0.2.1-1.noarch.rpm cobbler-0.2.3-1.noarch.rpm
-> failed dep:
        pexpect is needed by cobbler-0.2.3-1.noarch
        python-cheetah is needed by cobbler-0.2.3-1.noarch

fetched FC5 src.rpm:
http://fedoraproject.org/extras/5/SRPMS/pexpect-2.1-1.fc5.src.rpm
http://fedoraproject.org/extras/5/SRPMS/python-cheetah-1.0-2.fc5.src.rpm

rebuild and install the produced noarch.rpm -> ok

[tru at casewell RPMS]$ koan
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/koan", line 18, in ?
    import koan.koan as app
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/koan/koan.py", line 25, in ?
    import subprocess
ImportError: No module named subprocess

-> subprocess modules is python2.4 only :(

is a  RFE for backward python2.3 compatibility acceptable?

Best regards,

Tru
PS: now going to install a FC5 machine
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