Perl updates via yum
Geoffrey Leach
geoff at hughes.net
Tue Nov 13 23:35:53 UTC 2007
On 11/13/07 08:55:15, Jason Bertoch wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm running Fedora 7 and this morning yum wanted to update
> several
> Perl
> packages. After applying the update, I've been living a nightmare
> with
> mismatched version numbers. It seems that someone may be working on
> it because
> another release became available, but there are still a number of
> problems. The
> current version available is perl-5.8.8-26 which seems to be built
> for
> the
> 2.6.20-1.3002.fc6xen architecture. Attempting to update any other
> modules via
> CPAN throws the following error. Any ideas on when this will be
> fixed, or how I
> can repair it myself? My mail system relies heavily on Perl and it's
> down as a
> result.
>
> Error: Errno architecture (i386-linux-thread-
> multi-2.6.20-1.3001.fc6xen)
> does
> not match executable architecture (i386-linux-thread-
> multi-2.6.20-1.3002.fc6xen)
> at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Errno.pm line 11.
I've done the same thing without experiencing problems.
%rpm -q perl
perl-5.8.8-26.fc7
perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) configuration:
Platform:
osname=linux, osvers=2.6.20-1.3002.fc6xen, archname=i386-linux-
thread-multi
uname='linux xenbuilder1.fedora.redhat.com 2.6.20-1.3002.fc6xen #1
smp mon aug 13 14:21:21 edt 2007 i686 athlon i386 gnulinux '
...
Perhaps a reinstall of perl?
FWIW, I'm experiencing a different problem with CPAN, started without
any obvious connection to anything, and before the update.
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