[CentOS] Upgrade perl; package conflict

[Gregory P. Ennis]

On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 09:24 +0200, centos at bartbaars.nl wrote:
> Removing perl.i386 fixed this...
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ralph Angenendt" <ra+centos at br-online.de>
> To: centos at centos.org
> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 8:34:11 PM GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Bern / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Upgrade perl; package conflict
> 
> Phil Schaffner wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 08:55 +0200, centos at bartbaars.nl wrote:
> >> I'm working on upgrading my Xen Domain0 to CentOs 5.2. However, yum
> >> update gives me a package conflict on perl:
> > ...
> > > Using a x86_64 install btw.
> > > 
> > > Anyone seen this one?? 
> > 
> > Please don't hijack threads with a "Reply" when starting a new topic.
> > 
> > This problem is due to the lack of an i386 RPM in x86_64 repos.  See
> > http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2918
> 
> perl.i386 is *now* in the extras repository (as stated by the Release
> Notes) which is enabled by default. As it is not in upstream's x86_64
> tree, it's not going into the CentOS os/ or updates/ tree either.
> 
> That's why I closed that bug again.
> 
> Ralph
> 

Ralph,

I am still having this same problem.  The only non-CentOS package I have
installed is Astro::Time via cpan.  I have looked at the bug report but
am not sure what to do next.  I have two x86_64 units that still have
the problem.

Any ideas?

Greg