Yum broken = no testing

[Christopher Aillon]

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....