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
