(perl update clash) FC3 x86_64 Important Announcement

Gene Smith gds at chartertn.net
Thu May 5 01:55:09 UTC 2005


Matthew Miller wrote, On 05/02/2005 11:45 AM:
> On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 11:25:50AM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> 
>>We are deeply sorry about this inconvenience and will try to avoid this 
>>from ever happening again in the future.
> 
> 
> Thanks for the heads-up, Warren!
> 

Just to provide more info, the problem was a bunch of man page conflicts 
on yum update when perl updated on x86_64 system. This was caused by 
erroneous install of i386 perl with FC3. Solution (unless you really 
need i386 32bit perl as someone did above):

yum remove perl.i386
yum update




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