[CentOS] Upgrade perl; package conflict

Sun Jun 29 16:01:57 UTC 2008
Gregory P. Ennis <PoMec at PoMec.Net>

On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 10:45 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Do you not have extras enabled on this machine?
> 
> _______________________________________________

Yes I do have extra's enabled.