https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=871503 --- Comment #1 from Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> --- (In reply to comment #0) > it seems that perl only Provides /usr/bin/perl Correct. > well, if ANY package has Require: /bin/perl and is updated the same time as > perl depsolve in yum fails, you can satifsy such packages only by update the > packages not at the same time or as i did install a meta-package with > Provides: /bin/perl which is not true but made it possible to do a > yum-upgrade on some machines from F16 to F17 My answer to this is quite simple: * No package must Require: /bin/perl * Any package requiring /bin/perl has to be considered broken. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl perl-devel mailing list perl-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/perl-devel