[Yum-devel] yum 2.1.7 incompatibility with python 2.2

[Panu Matilainen]

[root at localhost root]# rpm -q yum python
yum-2.1.7-1
python-2.2.3-5
[root at localhost root]# yum list
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 23, in ?
    import yum
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 33, in ?
    from urlgrabber.grabber import URLGrabError
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/urlgrabber/__init__.py", line 53, 
in ?
    from grabber import urlgrab, urlopen, urlread
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 287, 
in ?
    socket.setdefaulttimeout(30.0)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'setdefaulttimeout'

Dunno if compatibility with older python versions is considered important
or not but this is a problem for RHEL 3 (and thus CentOS etc) at least.

	- Panu -