From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Why does git-core 0.99.7 require python 2.4? Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:07:18 -0700 Message-ID: <432F0C66.7060402@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Sep 19 21:07:29 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EHQz9-0001i1-9O for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 21:07:27 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932588AbVISTHY (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Sep 2005 15:07:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932589AbVISTHY (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Sep 2005 15:07:24 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([209.128.68.124]:17618 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932588AbVISTHY (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Sep 2005 15:07:24 -0400 Received: from [10.4.1.13] (yardgnome.orionmulti.com [209.128.68.65]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j8JJ7Nah005909 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:07:23 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050720) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Git Mailing List X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.87, clamav-milter version 0.87 on localhost X-Virus-Status: Clean Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I just tried to update the kernel.org hosts to git-core 0.99.7, but I got stuck due to the fact that git-core 0.99.7 requires python >= 2.4, which isn't in RHEL4 (python-2.3.2) nor in FC3 (python-2.3.4). Updating Python beyond what the distribution provides is a major operation. Can it be changed to work with python 2.3, to give a bit of leeway? -hpa