[Yum] yum 2.4.3 for EL3? (problems with 2.2.2)

[Rainer Traut]

Hi,

though I know it clearly states 2.4.3 is compatible with python > 2.3
I thought I give it a try; somebody seems to have tried already:
https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/2006-March/008425.html

I'm running into problems with yum-shell:
Setting up Yum Shell
> update
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
     yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 97, in main
     result, resultmsgs = do()
   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 444, in doShell
     yumshell.cmdloop()
   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/cmd.py", line 123, in cmdloop
     stop = self.onecmd(line)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/cmd.py", line 199, in onecmd
     return self.default(line)
   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/shell.py", line 64, in default
     self.base.cmds = shlex.split(self.base.cmdstring)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'split'

Probably this is because of python 2.2.
Is there a workaround (small patch?) for this?

Reason is, yum 2.2.2 does not like to update some packages:

# yum list mc
Setting up Repos
...
Reading repository metadata in from local files
...
Installed Packages
mc.i686                                  1:4.6.0-18             installed
Available Packages
mc.i386                                  1:4.6.1-1      xxx

yum 2.4.3 updates mc, while yum 2.2.2 does not...

Thx
Rainer