shot in the dark | RH 7.3 | python & up2date

[Scott David Daniels]

Much of RedHat 7.* relies on having python 1.5.2 (for all its scripts)

The "standard" practice is to install python 2.2 as python2 to cope
with this.  Starting with RedHat 8.0, they _are_ using python 2.2, so
you could simply move up to 8.0 if that is an option.

evan.cooch at NOSPAMcornell.edu wrote:
> This has nothing to do with programming in Python (so apologies in
> advance, and please set your flame throwers to stun only), but I'm
> guessing (hoping) someone out there has run into this, and can offer a
> solution. I'm running RH 7.3, and recently upgraded from python 1.5.2
> to python 2.x.x - I'm going to be re-writing some perl scripts I use
> in python, and figured might as well upgrade the version I had.
> 
> Hmmm...now the problem. Turns out the RH's autoupdate utility
> (up2date) seems to be critically dependent on 'something' to do with
> python, since it no longer works at all. 
> 
> Has anyone run into this, and (more improtant) anyone have a soluton?
> 
> Thanks!
>