[CentOS] yum update troubles

Tue Jan 4 19:06:14 UTC 2011
Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>

on 1-3-2011 9:00 PM Luigi Rosa spake the following:
> Matt said the following on 03/01/11 21:39:
> 
>> Running yum update on CentOS 4.8 32 bit I keep getting this:
> 
>> --> Running transaction check
>> --> Processing Dependency: perl(Compress::Raw::Zlib) = 2.024 for
>> package: perl-IO-Compress
>> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>> Error: Missing Dependency: perl(Compress::Raw::Zlib) = 2.024 is needed
>> by package perl-IO-Compress
> 
>> I try to uninstall perl-IO-Compress but something like 91 packages
>> depend on it.  Any ideas?
> 
> Conflict with rpmforge, happened to several installation since mid December.
> 
> Solved removing perl RPM packages and using CPAN.
> 
CPAN will just hide the problems, since RPM will NOT know about any CPAN
packages and will happily overwrite them.