[CentOS] problem with centos upgrade

[Michael A. Peters]

John R Pierce wrote:
> fabian dacunha wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I have a centos 5 server running my mail and Dns working fine
>>
>> but when i try to do u yum ugrade or yum update it gives me lots of perl
>> errors and it terminates
>>
>> OS is centos 5 (final)
>>
>> the part of errors reported
>> ---------------------------------
>>
>>   file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Math/BigFloat.pm from install of
>> perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1 conflicts with file from package
>> perl-Math-BigInt-1.86-1
>>   
> .....
> 
> 
> have you by any chance ever used CPAN to install perl modules ?
> 
> 

cpan wouldn't cause RPM conflicts, since rpm doesn't know about what 
CPAN installs.
Chances are he has some perl RPM's from a third party repo.