Package management

[Charlie Farinella]

Here is a question I have never gotten a grip on, I hope someone can clue 
me in.

I wish to use a distribution with a modern package management scheme, i.e. 
RPM, Yum, apt-get, ports, etc.  Each of these systems come with certain 
versions of each software package, for instance I am now dealing with 
CentOS using Python 2.3.4, and our developers need 2.4.  There is no 
upgrade path within the system to do this as 2.3.4 is current for this 
distro.

To do it with RPM's I need to do about a dozen of them which means I have 
to find out which ones I need, etc. negating any advantage to the package 
management system.  

I could build it from source and either run the 2 versions of python 
simultaneously, or replace the installed python, but again I lose my auto 
update option.

How does everyone else do this?

Thanks,

--charlie

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Charles Farinella 
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