On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Mark Pryor wrote:
> --- On Fri, 1/30/09, Dan Carl <danc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > From: Dan Carl <danc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Yum update conflicts perl-Math-BigInt
> > To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Friday, January 30, 2009, 1:13 PM
> > I followed the Wiki instructions for setting up
> > *yum-priorities*.
> > I added the rpmforge repo
> > I installed clamd without a problem.
> > Now when I go to update I get conflicts with
> > perl-Math-BigInt.
> >
> > Is the only solution to uninstall the base version and then
> > install the
> > rpmforge version?
>
> Take a deep breath there... the base version is Perl itself - Math::BigInt
> is a core module in C5.
>
> I would like to know why the developers of Clamd feel the need to use the
> latest perl-Math-BigInt? Try checking your /var/log/yum.log to see if this
> RPM was installed coincident with Clamd. Perhaps you can exclude it
> somehow.
ClamAV does not need perl-Math-BigInt. And FWIW, the latter has not been
updated since 21 Apr 2008.
--
Sahil Tandon <sahil@xxxxxxxxxx>
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