[Yum-devel] recompiling yum with new openssl

[Gellatly, Anna]

Is there a way to tell yum what version of python to use?
Anna.


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From: yum-devel-bounces at lists.baseurl.org [mailto:yum-devel-bounces at lists.baseurl.org] On Behalf Of Seth Vidal
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 2:25 PM
To: yum development
Subject: Re: [Yum-devel] recompiling yum with new openssl



On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Gellatly, Anna wrote:

> 
> Hello All –
> 
> I an required to change our system to upgrade the openssl to a FIPS compatible openssl version.
> 
> When I did this yum broke.
> 
> I have downloaded yum 3.2.25 with the intensions of re-compiling it 
> with my new openssl version but I don’t see a configure option to point the make to a different openssl. Has anyone done this and can anyone point me to something that might work?

1. yum is all in python so there's no 'configuration'
2. yum doesn't link directly to openssl at all - python does so you'll need to recompile python.
3. if you use the new python-urlgrabber with the newest yum you'll be using pycurl instead of urllib and pycurl should link to libnss which is FIPS compliant.

-sv