I have CentOS-Base.repo dag.repo jpackage.repo kbsingh-CentOS-Extras.repo. And yes, auto update.
I'd be very careful with auto-update on with external repositories involved. Nothing against dag or the jpackage crew or anyone else, but sometimes things go south or base packages can be overwritten. If you're going to do this, be careful, and use include/exclude statements where appropriate. You may also want to check out the protectbase plugin for yum.
All the perl packages are done via cpan. Am i into deep trouble?
Depends. You've certainly given yourself a bunch more work. The situation you're in is one of the finer examples of why dag and Karanbir work to populate perl module rpms into their repositories. Because cpan doesn't play well with rpm, I use it as a last resort if dag or karanbir don't have it packaged already, and cpan2rpm ( or any of the other similar tools) fails.
Your issue now is 'do you install the perl module rpm' which means you'll have to get rid of the cpan version, or else you'll have two versions of the software installed, and you'll have to work to keep them straight. The other alternative is to force the rpm, and I would advise against this. The problem with using --force, is that it'll cause yum to get amazingly angry with you over package dependencies, and you'll have to get more and more 'creative' to get your updates installed as time goes on. Don't use --force unless you REALLY know what you're doing with it.
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