[CentOS] sa-update error with perl

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>>>>>>    So maybe I *do* need to open a bug report?  Where do I do 

>>>>>> that?
>>>>>
>>>>>   can you try to disable ipv6, then reboot and see if you still 
>>>>> get the 
>>>>>   error message?
>>>>
>>>>   Sorry, it's a production machine, I'd rather not do that.  
>>>> I can 
>>>>  make small
>>>>   changes but a reboot--   Beside, if this is the set of packages 
>>>> CentOS
>>>>   gives me when I install something like spamassassin, it seems like
>>>>   they should work no matter what.   But don't get me wrong, I 
>>>> really
>>>>   appreciate your suggestion.
>>>
>>>  It is not the CentOS packages causing your issues.  I told you already
>>>  that I have spamassassin running with these packages with no problems:
>>
>>  Although I have the 32-bit packages which could be slightly different, no?
>> 
>>  That said, I would tend to think you're correct:
>> 
>>>  The issue you are having, based on the error that you posted, is that
>>>  something else is already providing the subroutine
>>>  "Net::DNS::Resolver::Base::AF_INET6" when it is trying to be 
>>> loaded by
>>>  perl module provided by CentOS (perl-Net-DNS-0.59-3.el5.i386).  What we
>>>  do not know is what ELSE is providing that routine.
>>
>>  It seems like it shouldn't be hard to grep for who the culprit is, but 
>> what
>>  do I know - doing this didn't turn up anything I could too easily 
>> decypher:
>> 
>>  cd /usr/lib/perl5
>>  grep -rin 'af_inet6' *
>> 
>>  I only got 40 lines of output from that so I could post them if needed.
>>  Grepping exactly for "sub af_inet6" gives me only one result:
>> 
>>  5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/bits/socket.ph:66:    eval 'sub AF_INET6 
>> () { &PF_INET6;}' unless defined(&AF_INET6);
>> 
>>  Are there modules that are placed somewhere other than
>>  /usr/lib/perl5 that could have the offending code?  Or is this
>>  a fruitless way to track down the problem?
>> 
> 
> perl-NetAddr-IP-4.044-1.el5.rf   <=== I think that is the problem package
> 
> I don't know if that version is required by the repoforge packages ... but 
> base contains perl-NetAddr-IP-4.027-5.el5_6
> 
> I would see if I could replace perl-NetAddr-IP-4.044-1.el5.rf from repoforge 
> with perl-NetAddr-IP-4.027-5.el5_6 from base.

rpm -e --nodeps perl-NetAddr-IP

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo 
     -- change all enabled = 1 to enabled = 0 temporarily (seems like
        yum priorities is going to be a good idea) --

yum install perl-NetAddr-IP

/etc/init.d/spamassassin condrestart
Stopping spamd: [  OK  ]
Starting spamd: [  OK  ]

That did it.  Thanks a lot to Nicolas for sharing and thanks very very
much to Johnny for the patient help.

Is there somewhere at RepoForge I could notify them about this?