Event posted on 09-04-2009 11:31am EDT by kbaxley

THere's a project underway in Fedora 12 to finally resolve the issues with Red Hat including #!/usr/bin/env python in our python executables:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SystemPythonExecutablesUseSystemPython

There's also a Fedora bug opened on this, and comments in there state that this is a big priority for RHEL6:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=518994

For RHEL5, we've been instructed by Product Management to open bugs on a package-by-package basis to address the problem.

In this case, createrepo in RHEL5 has at least one python executable containing #!/usr/bin/env python
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 issue 339029

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I'm 99% sure this is all fixed in the latest RHEL-6 createrepo.