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Description of problem: Django-0.96 requires MySQLdb 1.2.1p2 or higher. With an automatically-updated fc5 installation, you get Django 0.96 but mysqldb 1.2.0, which doesn't work. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.96-1.fc5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a Django project with a MySQL backend 2. Try to use it 3. Actual results: An exception because the version of MySQLdb is too old : ImproperlyConfigured: Error importing middleware django.contrib.sessions.middleware: "MySQLdb-1.2.1p2 or newer is required; you have 1.2.0" Expected results: It should work, Additional info: This is documented in the release notes for 0.96 at http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/release_notes_0.96/#mysqldb-version-requirement
Hmm. it looks like the easiest way is to just use the mysql_old backend; you'd be missing out on the new features, but it will be as functional as the mysql backend in Django 0.95. I can change the default template's settings.py for FC5 so that it suggests mysql_old rather than mysql, and put a notice in %doc -- that's sufficient, I hope?
I'm using mysql_old for now, but it took some digging to find out that it was necessary. I'm assuming it's non-trivial to move to a newer version of mysqldb ? If so, then your suggestion makes sense.
It's technically trivial, but mysqldb comes with the main MySQL distribution, and Fedora developers tend not to issue updates to large packages such as these on stable releases.
Uh, my mistake, it is a separate project. I'll ask the maintainer
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