rawhide perl update problem

Robin Norwood rnorwood at redhat.com
Mon Aug 6 16:17:46 UTC 2007


Steve G <linux_4ever at yahoo.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> For about a week, yum update perl has done this:
>
> Running rpm_check_debug
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Package perl-Test-Simple.x86_64 0:0.62-22.fc8 set to be updated
> ---> Package perl-libs.x86_64 4:5.8.8-22.fc8 set to be updated
> ---> Package perl-CPAN.x86_64 0:1.76_02-22.fc8 set to be updated
> ---> Package perl-devel.x86_64 4:5.8.8-22.fc8 set to be updated
> ---> Package perl-Test-Harness.x86_64 0:2.56-22.fc8 set to be updated
> ---> Package perl.x86_64 4:5.8.8-22.fc8 set to be updated
> ---> Package perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker.x86_64 0:6.30-22.fc8 set to be updated
> ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
> Package perl-devel needs perl(ExtUtils::Embed), this is not available.
> Complete!
>
> Doing "yum install perl-ExtUtils-Embed" causes the dependency to be correctly
> resolved and perl updated.

I can't seem to reproduce this - perl-ExtUtils-Embed provides
perl(ExtUtils::Embed) and perl-devel requires the same.  Is the x86_64
arch confusing yum somehow?

-RN

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Robin Norwood
Red Hat, Inc.

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