Error - MIME::Decoder::QuotedPrint

[Richard Potter]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Julian Field wrote:

> What does it actually do when you "update -u"?
> As your MIME::Base64 is installed in the right place I would expect to see
> it, and you don't have the spamassassin rpm installed, I don't understand
> its grounds for complaint. If it is actually complaining at all, and not
> just warning about stuff that doesn't matter.

Well.. watch this:

# rpm -e perl-MIME-Base64

# rpm -e --nodeps perl

# up2date -u perl
Invalid group id server-cfg

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-ws-3...

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-ws-3-extras...

Fetching rpm headers...
Name                                    Version        Rel
----------------------------------------------------------
perl                                    5.8.0          88.7              i386

Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
perl-5.8.0-88.7.i386.rpm:    Retrieved.
Preparing
Installing /var/spool/up2date/perl-5.8.0-88.7.i386.rpm...

# up2date -u
Invalid group id server-cfg

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-ws-3...

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-ws-3-extras...

Fetching rpm headers...

Name                                    Version        Rel
----------------------------------------------------------

The following Packages were marked to be skipped by your configuration:

Name                                    Version        Rel  Reason
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
spamassassin                            2.55           3.2  Pkg name/pattern

All packages are currently up to date

# rpm -ivh perl-MIME-Base64-3.05-2.i386.rpm
Preparing...                ##################################################
perl-MIME-Base64            ##################################################

# up2date -u
Invalid group id server-cfg

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-ws-3...

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-ws-3-extras...

Fetching rpm headers...

Name                                    Version        Rel
----------------------------------------------------------
perl                                    5.8.0          88.7              i386


Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
RPM package conflict error.  The message was:
Test install failed because of package conflicts:
package perl-5.8.0-88.7 is already installed

# up2date -l
Invalid group id server-cfg

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-ws-3...

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-ws-3-extras...

Fetching rpm headers...

Name                                    Version        Rel
----------------------------------------------------------
perl                                    5.8.0          88.7              i386

The following Packages were marked to be skipped by your configuration:

Name                                    Version        Rel  Reason
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
spamassassin                            2.55           3.2  Pkg name/pattern

The following Packages are obsoleted by newer packages:

Name-Version-Release        obsoleted by      Name-Version-Release
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
perl-MIME-Base64-3.05-2                 perl-5.8.0-88.7
perl-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.0-1          spamassassin-2.55-3.2


I am going in circles here.

Richard

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