-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The current issue of "Linux Journal" has an interesting story about a program called "spambayes": interesting enough that I wanted to try it on my gateway/firewall machine.
This machine is running LM 8.2 (on the grounds that "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"; I have LM 9.0 running on another machine, but don't like to make other than minimal changes on the machine that acts as my gateway to the world). The spambayes page says that it needs a later version of python than the version 2.1.1 that came with LM 8.2. "OK", thought I, "that's a minor upgrade that probably won't break anything". But when I went to install the python 2.2.2-6mdk rpm from the cooker, it wanted several more rpms. These looked innocuous enough (things like python libraries). But then those wanted more. And then those wanted things like a new version of kde-base and dhcpd. At which point I thought "why on Earth should I need to install a new version of dhcpd just because I want to upgrade from python 2.1.1 to 2.2.2?" So the upshot of all this is: what is the recommended procedure for upgrading from python 2.1.1 to 2.2.2 on an LM 8.2 machine without having to mess with anything major and with a reasonable assurance that nothing will break? Doc Evans -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.0.2 -- QDPGP 2.60 Comment: Key obtainable from servers: ID 0x362912B8 iQA/AwUBPkWVOmnXrLw2KRK4EQKvtACgkS2WG+WTa6E18a1kEWLECM4XA4AAn1xF 34tlWMQIPDE89o/SbejvMZlG =T3VL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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