(in memory) database

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:05:08 +0000, Cameron Laird <claird at lairds.us> wrote:
>In article <b68940e4-78cc-4fbb-94cd-69478d45f96c at 26g2000hsk.googlegroups.com>,
>Paul Boddie  <paul at boddie.org.uk> wrote:
> [snip]
>
>Thanks for pursuing this, Paul.  You have me curious now.
>
>Let's take a definite example:  I have a convenient
>    Ubuntu 8.04.1
>The content of /etc/apt/sources.list is
>    deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy main restricted
>    deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-updates main restricted
>    deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy universe multiverse
>    deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted
>I do
>    apt-get update
>    apt-get upgrade
>    apt-get install python2.5
>then
>    # python2.5
>    Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Dec 11 2006, 21:09:56)
>    [GCC 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)] on linux2
>    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

It doesn't seem likely to me that this is the Python 2.5 packaged in
Ubuntu 8.04.  It's build timestamp is almost a year and a half before
8.04 was released.  Here's the header on my installation:

  Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jul 31 2008, 17:28:52) 
  [GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)] on linux2
  Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

This could be a bug in the upgrade from a previous version of Ubuntu
installed on the host or perhaps you have a different Python 2.5 installed
on the machine that's not from the Ubuntu package repository?

Jean-Paul