Perl updates via yum
Jason Bertoch
jason at electro-net.com
Wed Nov 14 13:38:02 UTC 2007
On Wednesday, November 14, 2007 6:48 AM Dave Mitchell wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 03:35:53PM -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>
> The OP's problem seems to be that architecture has got the kernel name
> included in it for some reason, ie
>
> archname=i386-linux-thread-multi-2.6.20-1.3001.fc6xen)
> instead of
> archname=i386-linux-thread-multi
>
> which is very wrong, and will break CPAN modules on every kernel
> update.
>
> Jason, what does perl -V show you?
>
I was forced into compiling perl from source to fix the issue. We've all
fat-fingered something, but those updating the repositories need to be _way_
more careful than that.
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