[Yum] perl-NDBM_File conflict

[Theresa Chen]

Thanks...sorry about the repeat.  I did a google search on this list and
it didn't show your posting...thanks again.

Regards, T

On 13 Jun 2003, seth vidal wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 11:33, Theresa Chen wrote:
> > While trying to upgrade a RH 7.3 distro to 9, I received the following
> > error:
> >
> > ############SNIP###############
> >
> > # yum -y upgrade
> > Gathering package information from servers
> > Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 9 base
> > Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 9 updates
> > Finding updated packages
> > Downloading needed headers
> > Finding obsoleted packages
> > Resolving dependencies
> > .conflict between perl and perl-NDBM_File
> >
> > ###########SNIP#############
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
>
> yep.
>
> I posted about this to this list.
>
> you need to remove perl-NDBM_File first
>
> in rhl 8.0 perl obsoleted perl-NDBM_File
> but that obsolete was removed in rhl 9.
>
> so yum has no way that those two aren't just a conflict.
>
> -sv
>
>