[Yum] update failing

[Anne Ramey]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 16:14 -0400, Anne Ramey wrote:
> 
>>I'm getting a strange problem when I try and do an update.  I just got 
>>these machines and wanted to do a general update, so I include the 
>>desired repositories and do a yum update.  It finds a whole bunch of 
>>files (including:
>>Update: perl.x86_64 3:5.8.5-14.FC3
>>   Update: perl-Cyrus.x86_64 0:2.2.12-1.1.fc3
>>   Update: perl-suidperl.x86_64 3:5.8.5-14.FC3
>>  ), downloads them, then gives me this:
>>Running Transaction Test
>>Finished Transaction Test
>>Transaction Check Error:   file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/File/Path.pm from 
>>install of perl-5.8.5-14.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9
>>   file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/FindBin.pm from install of 
>>perl-5.8.5-14.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9
>>   file /usr/share/man/man1/c2ph.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-14.FC3 
>>conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9
>>   file /usr/share/man/man1/cpan.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-14.FC3 
>>conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9
[...]
>>how can those two packages conflict?  Shouldn't it just update perl? 
>>These are the first 2 64-bit machines I've used yum on...do I need 
>>different repositories?
> 
> 
> it's a packaging problem on fedora core 3.
> 
> run: yum remove perl.i386
> 
> -sv
Is this going to happen every time...I'm going to have to reinstall all 
my perl modules each time?

Anne