FC3+yum+perl problem

[Paul Howarth]

On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 12:40 +0100, T. Horsnell wrote:
> I hit this when trying to upgrade perl on my Opteron box.
> What's the correct procedure from here?
> I initially used up2date, which successfully updated
> everything but perl, so I then tried yum on it.
> 
> Cheers,
> Terry.
> 
> 
> [root at ls1 ~]$ yum update perl
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up Repos
> base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00     
> updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00     
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> base      : ################################################## 2852/2852
> updates-re: ################################################## 981/981
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Downloading header for perl to pack into transaction set.
> perl-5.8.5-12.FC3.x86_64. 100% |=========================| 269 kB    00:00     
> ---> Package perl.x86_64 3:5.8.5-12.FC3 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> 
> Dependencies Resolved
> Transaction Listing:
>   Update: perl.x86_64 3:5.8.5-12.FC3 - updates-released
> Total download size: 12 M
> Is this ok [y/N]: y
> Downloading Packages:
> (1/1): perl-5.8.5-12.FC3. 100% |=========================|  12 MB    00:04     
> Running Transaction Test
> Finished Transaction Test
> Transaction Check Error:   file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/File/Path.pm from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9

The i386 version of perl was included in FC3 x86_64 by mistake, and
causes this problem.

Fix:
# yum remove perl.i386

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>