Re: [pcp] PCP / RHEL 5 Update Issue

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi guys,

----- Original Message -----
> [...]
> >> Can someone from RH who understands the process for source on
> >> oss.sgi.com -> rpms in epel-testing care to explain?
> > According to the spec file, python-pcp is disabled in epel5. The comment
> > says that the python version there (pre-2.6) is too old. So no
> > python-pcp-3.10.3-1 was built.

*nod*

> in that case you need to Obsolete the python-pcp package in another
> package so that you won't break system updates for those who have it
> installed.

It turns out there's a python26 in EPEL5 - I'll look into switching the
epel5 builds to using that for the next release such that we get back
the python monitoring tools, PMDAs and APIs there.

cheers.

--
Nathan