Heads-up: python 2.5 on its way

[Richard Dawe]

Hello.

Phil Knirsch wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
>> This is just a heads up that I'm in the progress of getting python 2.5
>> staged for the development tree.  At this point, I'm doing the build on
>> the side and trying to get a good chunk of the Core packages rebuilt
>> against it before pushing to the development tree itself.  I'm still
>> hoping to be able to do the actual move over either later today or
>> tomorrow (depending on how fast the Core build system decides to be)
>>
> 
> Just ran a few tests with it today and the version in the tree and i got
> a nice segfault when using the bsddb module:
> 
> import bsddb
> db = bsddb.hashopen("/var/lib/rpm/Basenames", "r")
> 
> died on me. Simply installing the latest db4 and db4-devel and then
> rebuilding python fixed it for me.

I filed a bug for this last weekend:

Bug 219206: Crash in python 2.5 bsddb module
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219206>

I added your notes as a comment.

Thanks, bye, Rich =]

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