[Yum-devel] strange obsoleting with perl and perl-suidperl

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 23:13 +0200, Terje Røsten wrote:
> rawhide is pushing perl 5.12, part of changes in new perl is removing 
> perl-suidperl.
> 
> perl proper has:
> 
> http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/perl/devel/perl.spec?revision=1.274&view=markup
> 
> # suidperl isn't created by upstream since 5.12.0 133
> Obsoletes: perl-suidperl <= 4:5.10.1-118
> 
> However yum still ends up in trouble, when doing yum install perl:
> 
> ->  Finished Dependency Resolution
> Dependency Process ending
> 4:perl-suidperl-5.10.1-118.fc14.x86_64 from installed has depsolving problems
>    -->  Package: 4:perl-suidperl-5.10.1-118.fc14.x86_64 (@rawhide/13)
>    -->      Requires: perl = 4:5.10.1-118.fc14
>    -->      Removing: 4:perl-5.10.1-118.fc14.x86_64 (@rawhide/13)
>    -->          perl = 4:5.10.1-118.fc14
>    -->      Updated By: 4:perl-5.12.1-123.fc14.x86_64 (rawhide)
>    -->          perl = 4:5.12.1-123.fc14
> 
> Full logs here:
> 
>   http://terjeros.fedorapeople.org/perl.depsolve.txt
> 
> Any ideas?
> 


Can you run:

yum list perl

and 
yum list obsoletes

there? b/c it sure looks like somethinghas multiple obsoleting paths.

-sv