[CentOS] perl woes - perl-file-Temp conflict

Mon Jul 27 22:40:28 UTC 2009
Rob Kampen <rkampen at kampensonline.com>


Rob Kampen wrote:
> Hi all, everytime I play with perl I end up falling on my face.
>
> Yesterday, some new perl modules available from rf (my chosen repo for 
> perl,
> perl is excluded from my CentOS-Base), however it did not like an
> already installed perl-File-Temp, so not recalling it was necessary for
> my mail system I removed it and allowed the updates.
> Then when I discovered my mail system no longer working (amavisd
> installed as per centos wiki) I tried to re-install - finally using
> --force - but now I have two Temp.pm files and the one I need is not 
> found.
> Why is it that perl has this really messy structure and allows multiple
> files / methods of the same name, and thus tripping up the unsuspecting.
>
> Now I'm lost as to how to unwind and remove the necessary files from
> yesterdays update so I can reinstall perl-File-Temp?
> the error message :-
>
> Transaction Check Error:
>   file /usr/share/man/man3/File::Temp.3pm.gz from install of
> perl-File-Temp-0.22-1.el5.rf.noarch conflicts with file from package
> perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1.i386
>
> From this it appears that the base perl is in conflict, yet yesterdays
> updated perl files were
> Jul 26 23:34:17 Updated: perl-DBI-1.609-1.el5.rf.i386
> Jul 26 23:34:22 Updated: perl-Net-DNS-0.65-1.el5.rf.i386
> Jul 26 23:34:35 Updated: perl-HTML-Parser-3.61-1.el5.rf.i386
> Jul 26 23:34:37 Updated: perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.020-1.el5.rf.i386
> Jul 26 23:34:41 Updated: perl-Net-SSLeay-1.35-1.el5.rf.i386
> Jul 26 23:34:42 Installed: perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-RSA-0.25-1.el5.rf.i386
> Jul 26 23:34:43 Updated: 1:perl-Convert-UUlib-1.12-1.el5.rf.i386
> Jul 26 23:34:45 Updated: perl-Digest-SHA1-2.12-1.el5.rf.i386
> Jul 26 23:35:05 Updated: perl-DBD-mysql-4.012-1.el5.rf.i386
> Jul 26 23:35:06 Installed: perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.020-1.el5.rf.i386
> Jul 26 23:35:09 Installed: perl-Digest-SHA-5.47-1.el5.rf.i386
> Jul 26 23:35:30 Installed: perl-IO-Compress-2.020-2.el5.rf.noarch
> Jul 26 23:35:32 Installed: perl-Mail-DKIM-0.36-1.el5.rf.noarch
> Jul 26 23:35:42 Updated: perl-Package-Constants-0.02-1.el5.rf.noarch
> Jul 26 23:35:43 Updated: perl-IO-Socket-SSL-1.26-1.el5.rf.noarch
> Jul 26 23:36:52 Updated: perl-IO-Zlib-1.10-1.el5.rf.noarch
> Jul 26 23:39:05 Erased: perl-Compress-Zlib
> Jul 26 23:39:05 Erased: perl-IO-Compress-Base
> Jul 26 23:39:06 Erased: perl-IO-Compress-Zlib
>
> I tried to remove perl-IO* but it wants to remove most of my machine 
> and I cannot allow that.
> So how do I rewind and get it straight?
> lost in the maze of perls
>
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Further looking at both my mail servers makes me even more confused.
One is i686 the other x64_86. The one having problems is the i686. They 
both have rpmforge set up for perl and both up to date.
the x64_86 does not have nor apparently need perl-File-Temp.
both have nearly identical conf files for amavisd (domains differ)
so why does the i686 machine look for Temp.pm with a seek function but 
the 64bit doesn't?
confused
now I guess I need to check version numbers
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