[CentOS] sa-update error with perl

[Johnny Hughes]

On 01/04/2012 01:33 AM, email builder wrote:
> John, THANK YOU very much for responding --
>
>
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>>>  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...
> That was my fear...   I'm wondering why this crept up again,
> since all my packages are completely up to date according
> to yum.
>

yum only does what we tell it to do.

It is possible that you have a package installed that is not from the
CentOS repos, etc.

If people add external repositories, it is very easy to get conflicts.



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