[CentOS-devel] perl and perl::IO conflict

Sun Jul 13 15:26:32 UTC 2008
Hugo van der Kooij <hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org>

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Ralph Angenendt wrote:
| Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
|> BTW the conflict shows up as:
|>
|> ~        file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/IO.pm from
|> install of perl-IO-1.2301-1 conflicts with file from package
|> perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
|
| From CentOS 5 on this could be a non-issue, if external perl packages
| would put their stuff into /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl which comes before
| /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 in @INC. That would leave you with the the man page
| problem, though and I don't know of a workaround against that.

The man page stuff was the easy bit.

Moving it to siteperl took a little bit more reading. But I think I got
it nailed.

Hugo.

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