Package management

[Shawn K. O'Shea]

> 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?

python.org maintains a 3rd party repository for doing exactly this. I
mentioned it at the February PySIG meeting (and thanks to Ted's notes,
I found it again. Thanks Ted!). You can just add their repo and yum
install the 2.4 distro and have both available. It's not perfect, but
works pretty well despite that.

http://www.python.org/pyvault/

-Shawn