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
