[CentOS] Upgrade perl; package conflict

Thu Jun 26 17:15:42 UTC 2008
Tony Schreiner <schreian at bc.edu>

On Jun 26, 2008, at 2:55 AM, centos at bartbaars.nl wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I'm working on upgrading my Xen Domain0 to CentOs 5.2. However, yum  
> update gives me a package conflict on perl:
>
> Running Transaction Test
> Finished Transaction Test
>
>
> Transaction Check Error:
>   file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/pod/perldiag.pod from install of  
> perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package  
> perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2
>   file /usr/share/man/man1/c2ph.1.gz from install of  
> perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package  
> perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2
> \


This can also happen if you have both i386 and x86_64 version of perl  
installed. Only the x86_64 version gets updated, and this leads to  
the conflict.

Tony Schreiner