safe to install rawhide python2.4 on FC3?

[Neal Becker]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

> Am Sa, den 11.12.2004 schrieb Neal Becker um 23:30:
> 
>> Anyone know if it should be safe to install devel python2.4 rpms onto
>> FC3?
> 
> If you want to break a fair part of what makes Fedora Fedora ...
> 
> For serious, don't do it. Why do you want or even do you need to?
> python.org has 2.4 RPMs which shall be candidates to be installed in
> parallel to the system Python, so not exchanging the important Python
> 2.3.4 parts FC3 comes with.
> 
> Alexander
> 
> 

I'm trying to install on x86_64.  python.org 2.4 SRPMs are not correct for
x86_64, they don't build due to confusion over /usr/lib64.

There are quite a few patches in rawhide python 2.4, and I don't know what
they are all for, so I was hoping that I could just use the 2.4 version
as-is.  I guess I could take the rawhide version, modify configure to use
altinstall (or whatever it was called to install under alt name), then
modify the spec so that it doesn't overwrite /usr/bin/python.