Perl won't update

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 03:36:43PM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:10:39 -0500
> mcforum at bellsouth.net wrote:
> 
> > > ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
> > > Package perl-devel needs perl(ExtUtils::Embed), this is not
> > > available.
> 
> See bug: 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=253763
> 
> I think this problem is due to an older version of yum not doing the
> right thing, so the dependencies didn't get pulled in right, and now
> the new more correct yum sees the rpm error and bails out. 

I am not so sure.  See what seems to be like a similar problem in
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=253447
An update from compat-db-4.5.20-2.fc8 to compat-db-4.5.20-3.fc8
removes 'db4-devel' from "provides" and yum immediately bails
out instead of checking if this cannot be resolved somewhere
else (by db4-devel package in this case).

Maybe this is a different problem but it looks awfully similar.

> Ie, it's an existing condition from a previous (now fixed) yum bug. 

All that "compat-db mixup" happened with the current yum.  No, there
are no problems reported until you will try compat-db update.
Clearly pretty easy to untangle with a "manual intervention".

> If anyone seeing this could go add comments to that bug we can have the
> info needed to make sure thats whats really happening. 

A cross-reference to 253447 seems to be in order.  Will do.

   Michal