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Failure in t6021 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

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MAMark Allen <mrallen1@yahoo.com>
Date
Dec 7, 2005, 16:49 UTC
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Running t/t6021-crisscross-merge.sh -v -i on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Workstation with python 2.3.4 installed, I found a fatal error in the test.

Apparently, this release of python doesn't have the subprocess module installed. In what package is that located? How can I fix this error?

Thanks!
--Mark
-- BEGIN --

[mallen@mrhat t]$ rpm -q python python-2.3.4-14.1

...SNIP...
git commit -m D8 file
Committing initial tree ec103796f9a6ca8367bd90cd88edf39c5dd2ae26
Trying really trivial in-index merge...
fatal: Merge requires file-level merging
Nope.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/mallen/git/git.git/t/../git-merge-recursive", line 13, in ?
    from gitMergeCommon import *
  File "/home/mallen/git/git.git/gitMergeCommon.py", line 18, in ?
    import subprocess
ImportError: No module named subprocess
Automatic merge failed/prevented; fix up by hand
...SNIP...
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  1. Mark AllenDec 7, 2005
  2. Junio C HamanoDec 7, 2005
  3. Mark AllenDec 7, 2005
  4. Junio C HamanoDec 7, 2005
  5. Make sure we use compat/subprocess.py with Python 2.3 while running tests.Junio C Hamano, Dec 8, 2005
  6. Mark AllenDec 8, 2005

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