[Yum] update failing
seth vidal
skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Fri Jul 22 20:46:39 UTC 2005
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 16:42 -0400, Anne Ramey wrote:
> 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?
>
should only happen once - but even so - you should bring this up on a
fedora-list - it's not a yum issue per-se.
-sv
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