[CentOS] sa-update error with perl

[John Doe]

From: email builder <emailbuilder88 at yahoo.com>

> The only hints I can find seem to suggest to remove
> perl-IO-Socket-INET6, but trying to do so using yum (I don't
> want to start using another method of package management)
> tells me that spamassassin is a dependency and will also be
> removed - obviously undesirable.

If you really want to remove it, use rpm instead.
rpm -e --nodeps perl-IO-Socket-INET6
But it will annoy you at every update...

On my Zimbra server (CentOS 5.7), sa works fine.
I have spamassassin-3.3.1-2.el5 and 
perl-IO-Socket-INET6-2.51-2.fc6 installed.

Did you disable IPV6?

JD