Found a bug in redhat-8.0 Python, Fixed (i think). RPMs linked.

[Ray Ferguson]

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I'm not sure what the policy is on this, but it looks like the only RPM that 
needs an update to fix this is the main python rpm.  However, the srpm makes 
a bunch of rpms. 

- -ray.

On Sunday 25 January 2004 1:54 pm, Ray Ferguson wrote:
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>  It sure looks like I found a problem RedHat knew about, fixed in 7.3 then
>  forgot about in 8.0.  I don't have an RH9 box to test on, but the problem
> is fixed in RHES3.
>
>  urllib2 (part of the python package) does not support non-annymous ftp in
> RH8. This was fixed in an update released for RH7.3 as per the change log
> here:
>
> 
> http://www2.linuxforum.net/RPM/redhat/updates/7.3/en/os/i386/python2-2.2.2-
>11.7.3.i386.html
>
>  However, that fix never made into RH8.  As such, specifying a url like
> this
>
>  ftp://user:pass@server/path
>
>  in yum.conf does not work on RH8.
>
>  I took apart the RH7.3 rpm and grabed the patch to fix nonanonftp, added
> it to thr RH8 sources, updated the spec file and built the rpms.  Yum seems
> to work peachy w/ nonanonymous ftp now.
>
>  The related RPMs will are at http://share-foo.com/rpms/ .  I've attempted
> to conform to your packaging guidlines.  Let me know if I've made mistakes.
>
>  -ray.
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