[Yum-devel] zeroconf-like discovery of repos

Paul Nasrat pnasrat at redhat.com
Fri May 26 18:24:22 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 13:39 -0400, Mihai Ibanescu wrote:
> On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 01:36:26PM -0700, Michael Stenner wrote:
> > On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 03:09:56PM -0400, Mihai Ibanescu wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 06:02:15PM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> > > > Karanbir Singh wrote:
> > > > > Mihai Ibanescu wrote:
> > > > >> I have the plugin already done (relaying on python-adns after I patched it to
> > > > >> support SRV records). I will send it after I clean things up a little
> > > > >> (probably by end of day today).
> > > > > 
> > > > > request: can we try and stay py2.3 safe.... if possible py2.2 safe..
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > doh! i suppose that request came too late :)
> > > 
> > > I believe it should be py2.2 safe. Definitely not 1.5 safe, although probably
> > > too few people care about that - the largest obstacle would probably be
> > > python-adns. I will definitely test it on 2.2.
> > 
> > Large parts of yum (including urlgrabber) do not work for <2.2, so
> > there's no point in aiming lower.
> 
> I just tried yum 2.6.0 on python 2.2 - no luck. sets does not exist in python
> 2.2.

I don't think there is extensive use of sets in yum on HEAD it looks
like:

./rpmUtils/transaction.py

in a function that is only used in yum-utils, so you should be able to
hack around it to test basic python compat.

Paul




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