[CentOS] yum update troubles

Wed Jan 5 04:34:40 UTC 2011
Luigi Rosa <lists at luigirosa.com>

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Benjamin Franz said the following on 04/01/11 21:42:

> Right up until an update for Perl itself is pushed - and then you will 
> find all your packages gone. If you need to tweek, use cpan2rpm to 
> generate rpms. I've generally found the issues are tied to man files - 
> so if you suppress the man file generation in the spec and stick with 
> perldoc for a module's documentation you can generally work around the 
> conflicts.

You are right about the problem about update. That's why I put every Perl
library I install on a server in a script that invokes either yum or CPAN to
install/update/document the installed libraries.

I will give cpan2rpm a try, thank you


Ciao,
luigi

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