>>>> The only hints I can find seem to suggest to remove
>>>> perl-IO-Socket-INET6, but trying to do so using yum (I don't
>>>> want to start using another method of package management)
>>>> tells me that spamassassin is a dependency and will also be
>>>> removed - obviously undesirable.
>>> If you really want to remove it, use rpm instead.
>>> rpm -e --nodeps perl-IO-Socket-INET6
>>> But it will annoy you at every update...
>> That was my fear... I'm wondering why this crept up again,
>> since all my packages are completely up to date according
>> to yum.
>
> yum only does what we tell it to do.
I told it to update all my packages. :-)
> It is possible that you have a package installed that is not from the
> CentOS repos, etc.
>
> If people add external repositories, it is very easy to get conflicts.
I do have rpmforge as a repo in order to get a thing or two that
CentOS does not offer. How can I diagnose if this is the problem?
Here's a list of perl packages according to rpm -qa ---- are the ".rf"
ones from rpmforge? I think most of those are requirements for the
amavisd-new package.
perl-Net-DNS-0.63-1.el5.rf
perl-URI-1.35-3
perl-libwww-perl-5.805-1.1.1
perl-Package-Constants-0.02-1.el5.rf
perl-Pod-Escapes-1.04-1.2.el5.rf
perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-RSA-0.26-1.el5.rf
perl-NetAddr-IP-4.044-1.el5.rf
perl-Socket6-0.19-3.fc6
perl-5.8.8-32.el5_7.6
perl-String-CRC32-1.4-2.fc6
perl-Digest-SHA1-2.11-1.2.1
perl-Digest-HMAC-1.01-15
perl-HTML-Tagset-3.20-1.el5.rf
perl-IO-Socket-SSL-1.17-1.el5.rf
perl-Compress-Zlib-1.42-1.fc6
perl-TimeDate-1.16-5.el5
perl-Convert-BinHex-1.119-2.2.el5.rf
perl-Convert-TNEF-0.17-3.2.el5.rf
perl-Mail-SPF-2.006-1.el5.rf
perl-DBI-1.52-2.el5
perl-Digest-SHA-5.50-1.el5.rf
perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-Random-0.04-1.el5.rf
perl-Pod-Simple-3.16-1.el5.rf
perl-Git-1.7.6.4-1.el5.rf
perl-Unix-Syslog-1.1-1.el5.rf
perl-Archive-Tar-1.39.1-1.el5_5.2
perl-Error-0.17016-1.el5.rf
perl-Email-Date-Format-1.002-1.el5.rf
perl-Mail-DKIM-0.39-1.el5.rf
perl-Net-SSLeay-1.30-4.fc6
perl-IO-Zlib-1.09-1.el5.rf
perl-HTML-Parser-3.59-1.el5.rf
perl-IO-stringy-2.110-1.2.el5.rf
perl-Archive-Zip-1.26-1.el5.rf
perl-MIME-tools-5.420-2.el5.rf
perl-Razor-Agent-2.84-1.el5.rf
perl-DBD-MySQL-3.0007-2.el5
perl-BerkeleyDB-0.43-1.el5.rf
perl-Convert-UUlib-1.34-1.el5.rf
perl-Net-Server-0.99-1.el5.rf
perl-Test-Pod-1.45-1.el5.rf
perl-MIME-Lite-3.027-1.el5.rf
perl-MailTools-2.08-1.el5.rf
perl-version-0.91-1.el5.rf
perl-IO-Socket-INET6-2.51-2.fc6
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