Can't upgrade some perl modules

[Richard Potter]

On Mon, December 17, 2007 9:14 am, Ugo Bellavance wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This is MailScanner version 4.61.7
>
> When I try a yum update (using rpmforge), I get these errors, so I can't
> really update my systems:
>
> file /usr/share/man/man3/bigint.3pm.gz conflicts between attempted
> installs of perl-5.8.0-97.EL3 and perl-bignum-0.22-1.el3.rf
> file /usr/share/man/man3/bignum.3pm.gz conflicts between attempted
> installs of perl-5.8.0-97.EL3 and perl-bignum-0.22-1.el3.rf
> file /usr/share/man/man3/bigrat.3pm.gz conflicts between attempted
> installs of perl-5.8.0-97.EL3 and perl-bignum-0.22-1.el3.rf
> file /usr/share/man/man3/Test::Builder.3pm.gz conflicts between
> attempted installs of perl-Test-Simple-0.74-1.el3.rf and perl-5.8.0-97.EL3
> file /usr/share/man/man3/Test::More.3pm.gz conflicts between attempted
> installs of perl-Test-Simple-0.74-1.el3.rf and perl-5.8.0-97.EL3
> file /usr/share/man/man3/Test::Simple.3pm.gz conflicts between attempted
> installs of perl-Test-Simple-0.74-1.el3.rf and perl-5.8.0-97.EL3
> file /usr/share/man/man3/Test::Tutorial.3pm.gz conflicts between
> attempted installs of perl-Test-Simple-0.74-1.el3.rf and perl-5.8.0-97.EL3
>
> Is there a way to update w/o having to upgrade MS?

This *appears* to be a yum problem. I have installed the following
plugins, to work around this problem. This is on my testing box.

# yum install yum-fastestmirror yum-skip-broken yum-kmod yum-kernel-module
yum-priorities

Dag Wiiers talks about it here:

http://dag.wieers.com/blog/content/i-am-sorry-that-your-yum-is-broken


Richard