"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, switchdesk-gui in RHEL5 has at least one instance of a python script containing #!/usr/bin/env python"
easy fix -> +devel ack
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Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. New Contents: The shebang lines in Python executables have been changed to "#!/usr/bin/python" to ensure the Python interpreter installed in the system is used.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1295.html