[Yum] python 2.2 plus 2.3 on RedHat

[Rick Graves]

Jim,

> They may be able to be installed side by side, but
> if he's updating via 
> yum, it's trying to update the old package, not
> install a new one beside 
> it. This would be causing the grief.

You can install python 2.3 side by side, but you just
do an rpm -i to install python 2.3 -- yum will not do
it.  

Come to think of it, I can imagine why RedHat would
hard code python 2.2 into the system components that
use python.  RedHat wants zero risk that some future
python upgrade would break RedHat -- RedHat's
customer's would blame RedHat.  So RedHat cast the
python version in concrete, and this potential problem
is out of the way.  I am OK with that, given RedHat's
role in the open source world.  

Rick

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> They may be able to be installed side by side, but
> if he's updating via 
> yum, it's trying to update the old package, not
> install a new one beside 
> it. This would be causing the grief.
> 
> --
> Jim Perrin
> Ohio University
>