Re: [CentOS] Upgrading MySQLdb

2010-06-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/28/2010 11:24 AM, Whit Blauvelt wrote: >>> No, the fact that your ability to 'yum update' and have the right thing >>> happen is broken is a big problem regardless of who/where you ask for >>> help. Even if you break it yourself, it is bad that it is broken. >> >> As much as I would rather d

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading MySQLdb

2010-06-28 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:48:48AM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 09:49:21AM -0400, Jim Perrin wrote: > >> > > No, the fact that your ability to 'yum update' and have the right thing > > happen is broken is a big problem regardless of who/where yo

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading MySQLdb

2010-06-28 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: > On 6/28/2010 9:46 AM, Whit Blauvelt wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 09:49:21AM -0400, Jim Perrin wrote: >> > No, the fact that your ability to 'yum update' and have the right thing > happen is broken is a big problem regardless of who/where you ask for > help. Even if you

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading MySQLdb

2010-06-28 Thread Jim Perrin
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Whit Blauvelt wrote: > Sanity here is relative. If you go to the main support channels for stuff > like Apache or PHP or Python or Postfix or whatever, and you're having > trouble because of some bug that they fixed literally years ago, but which > your distro of

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading MySQLdb

2010-06-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/28/2010 9:46 AM, Whit Blauvelt wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 09:49:21AM -0400, Jim Perrin wrote: > >> It actually counts for probably 20-30% of all the support necessary on >> the irc channels with people trying to update php/mysql or similar >> from source. > > A large part of that problem

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading MySQLdb

2010-06-28 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 09:49:21AM -0400, Jim Perrin wrote: > It actually counts for probably 20-30% of all the support necessary on > the irc channels with people trying to update php/mysql or similar > from source. A large part of that problem is that people are asking for support in the wrong

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading MySQLdb

2010-06-28 Thread Jim Perrin
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Whit Blauvelt wrote: > (Wouldn't it be nice if CentOS had 2.6.5 instead 2.4.3? Python improved > dramatically between those two. My systems all get Python 2.6.5 alongside > 2.4.3 because (a) 2.6.5 has a lot of useful features I'm not going to refuse > to use just

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading MySQLdb

2010-06-28 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 08:58:45AM -0400, Jim Perrin wrote: > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Susan Day wrote: > > Hi; > > I've got MySQLdb installed (bridge to Python) and I can't figure out how to > > upgrade it. I did a find and got these paths: > > > > /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/SQLAlch

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading MySQLdb

2010-06-28 Thread Jim Perrin
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Whit Blauvelt wrote: > But seriously, aside from the nice theory about how each package management > system cures all dependency problems (which isn't 100% true), how many > people have actually found themselves in trouble from, say, building their > own LAMP stac

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading MySQLdb

2010-06-28 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 08:54:49AM -0400, Jim Perrin wrote: > 2010/6/28 Tsuyoshi Nagata : > > Your answer is just install MySQL5.1 from source code.(make install) > That's a horrible idea. At least use the package management system so > that dependencies can be tracked properly. Installing from s

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading MySQLdb

2010-06-28 Thread Jim Perrin
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Susan Day wrote: > Hi; > I've got MySQLdb installed (bridge to Python) and I can't figure out how to > upgrade it. I did a find and got these paths: > > /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.6beta2-py2.6.egg/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/mysqldb.py > /usr/lib/p

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading MySQLdb

2010-06-28 Thread Jim Perrin
2010/6/28 Tsuyoshi Nagata : > Hi, > Your answer is just install MySQL5.1 from source code.(make install) > next time requies B, B requires C,... That's a horrible idea. At least use the package management system so that dependencies can be tracked properly. Installing from source builds directly

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading MySQLdb

2010-06-28 Thread Tsuyoshi Nagata
Hi, (2010年06月27日 03:15), Susan Day wrote: > /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.6beta2-py2.6.egg/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/mysqldb.py No-way to upgrade to latest python(2.6), MySQL(5.1), sqlalchemy(0.6). in public centos site.Upstream policy keep running with older version until 2014. Y

[CentOS] Upgrading MySQLdb

2010-06-26 Thread Susan Day
Hi; I've got MySQLdb installed (bridge to Python) and I can't figure out how to upgrade it. I did a find and got these paths: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.6beta2-py2.6.egg/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/mysqldb.py /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.6beta2-py2.6.egg/sqlalchem