Rob Kampen wrote: > > > Rob Kampen wrote: >> Hi all, everytime I play with perl I end up falling on my face. >> >> Yesterday, some new perl modules available from rf (my chosen repo >> for perl, >> perl is excluded from my CentOS-Base), however it did not like an >> already installed perl-File-Temp, so not recalling it was necessary for >> my mail system I removed it and allowed the updates. >> Then when I discovered my mail system no longer working (amavisd >> installed as per centos wiki) I tried to re-install - finally using >> --force - but now I have two Temp.pm files and the one I need is not >> found. >> Why is it that perl has this really messy structure and allows multiple >> files / methods of the same name, and thus tripping up the unsuspecting. >> >> Now I'm lost as to how to unwind and remove the necessary files from >> yesterdays update so I can reinstall perl-File-Temp? >> the error message :- >> >> Transaction Check Error: >> file /usr/share/man/man3/File::Temp.3pm.gz from install of >> perl-File-Temp-0.22-1.el5.rf.noarch conflicts with file from package >> perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1.i386 >> >> From this it appears that the base perl is in conflict, yet yesterdays >> updated perl files were >> Jul 26 23:34:17 Updated: perl-DBI-1.609-1.el5.rf.i386 >> Jul 26 23:34:22 Updated: perl-Net-DNS-0.65-1.el5.rf.i386 >> Jul 26 23:34:35 Updated: perl-HTML-Parser-3.61-1.el5.rf.i386 >> Jul 26 23:34:37 Updated: perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.020-1.el5.rf.i386 >> Jul 26 23:34:41 Updated: perl-Net-SSLeay-1.35-1.el5.rf.i386 >> Jul 26 23:34:42 Installed: perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-RSA-0.25-1.el5.rf.i386 >> Jul 26 23:34:43 Updated: 1:perl-Convert-UUlib-1.12-1.el5.rf.i386 >> Jul 26 23:34:45 Updated: perl-Digest-SHA1-2.12-1.el5.rf.i386 >> Jul 26 23:35:05 Updated: perl-DBD-mysql-4.012-1.el5.rf.i386 >> Jul 26 23:35:06 Installed: perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.020-1.el5.rf.i386 >> Jul 26 23:35:09 Installed: perl-Digest-SHA-5.47-1.el5.rf.i386 >> Jul 26 23:35:30 Installed: perl-IO-Compress-2.020-2.el5.rf.noarch >> Jul 26 23:35:32 Installed: perl-Mail-DKIM-0.36-1.el5.rf.noarch >> Jul 26 23:35:42 Updated: perl-Package-Constants-0.02-1.el5.rf.noarch >> Jul 26 23:35:43 Updated: perl-IO-Socket-SSL-1.26-1.el5.rf.noarch >> Jul 26 23:36:52 Updated: perl-IO-Zlib-1.10-1.el5.rf.noarch >> Jul 26 23:39:05 Erased: perl-Compress-Zlib >> Jul 26 23:39:05 Erased: perl-IO-Compress-Base >> Jul 26 23:39:06 Erased: perl-IO-Compress-Zlib >> >> I tried to remove perl-IO* but it wants to remove most of my machine >> and I cannot allow that. >> So how do I rewind and get it straight? >> lost in the maze of perls >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > Further looking at both my mail servers makes me even more confused. > One is i686 the other x64_86. The one having problems is the i686. > They both have rpmforge set up for perl and both up to date. > the x64_86 does not have nor apparently need perl-File-Temp. > both have nearly identical conf files for amavisd (domains differ) > so why does the i686 machine look for Temp.pm with a seek function but > the 64bit doesn't? > confused > now I guess I need to check version numbers > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > I found that the perl-MIME-tools package I had was from another repo, replaced with rf version and all is well. problem was an enable=0 in the yum.repo.d repo file rather than enabled=0 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: rkampen.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 196 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090727/521f6aec/attachment-0005.vcf>