yum-2.1.11-4 not playing well with python-2.4-0.b2.1

[Dwaine Garden]

Mark Derricutt wrote:

> seth vidal wrote:
>
>>> a fix is here
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138535
>>>
>> No, that's not a good fix. It patches python, that's probably not the
>> best place, despite the fact that it looks like a backward compat break.
>> -sv
>
>
> Seth - has anything further been done on this?
>
> Another "fix" which isn't entirely a good fix would be to have a new 
> build of yum that did a version check on urllib and acted 
> appropriately ( better than a new yum which explicitly requires the 
> newer python/urllib, but not by much ).
>
> That being said, I'm sure this urllib change will be breaking more 
> than just yum so patching just 'yum' isn't a solution either.
>
> Has this been bugzilla'd with fedora or upstream with python at all?
>
> amrk
>
At least yum is going again.   It's the main thing for patching updates 
to the Fedora which is installed on my box.

Thanks guys...