yum-2.1.11-4 not playing well with python-2.4-0.b2.1

[Mark Derricutt]

seth vidal wrote:

>>a fix is here
>>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138535
>>
> No, that's not a good fix. It patches python, that's probably not the
> best place, despite the fact that it looks like a backward compat break.
> -sv

Seth - has anything further been done on this?

Another "fix" which isn't entirely a good fix would be to have a new 
build of yum that did a version check on urllib and acted appropriately 
( better than a new yum which explicitly requires the newer 
python/urllib, but not by much ).

That being said, I'm sure this urllib change will be breaking more than 
just yum so patching just 'yum' isn't a solution either.

Has this been bugzilla'd with fedora or upstream with python at all?

amrk