Can't upgrade some perl modules

[Jason Ede]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Gerry Doris
> Sent: 17 December 2007 20:44
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Can't upgrade some perl modules
>
> Richard Siddall wrote:
> > Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> >> 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
> > [snip]
> >>
> >> Is there a way to update w/o having to upgrade MS?
> >
> > You're running into one of the classic RPM packaging problems with
> > Perl.  The main Perl RPM contains the bignum Perl module.  You're
> > trying to install just an updated version of bignum, but RPM can't
> > replace part of the main Perl RPM; it's the whole RPM or nothing.
> >
> > The usual way of getting around this is to force installation of the
> > new package.  yum will have left a copy of the RPM in the cache for
> > the repository you downloaded it from, so you can probably do
> > something like:
> >
> >     rpm -Uvh --nodeps \
> > /var/cache/yum/rpmforge/perl-bignum-0.22-1.el3.rf
> >
> > where rpmforge is the repo name.
> >
> > As has been pointed out on the list before, there's a small
> > possibility that forcing installation of a new module will stop
> > existing Perl programs from working.
> >
> > The alternative is to add perl-bignum to the list of RPMs that are
> > excluded from updating for the repo that's causing the conflict.
> Find
> > the repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d/ and append perl-bignum to the
> > exclude line, or add an exclude line if there isn't one there
> already.
> >
> >     exclude=perl-bignum
> >
> > I hope that helps.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >     Richard Siddall
> I ran into much the same problem a week ago.  I was getting a yum error
> when it tried to update my main perl rpm.  There were several conflicts
> with rpm's installed by MailScanner.  I ended up shutting down
> MailScanner and removing the problem rpm's.  I then did the yum perl
> upgrade.
>
> I did a MailScanner reinstall to confirm everything was ok (I was told
> MailScanner was already installed).  All has been working fine.

I did same thing... Happens each time I run yum update. Keep meaning to write a little script to remove problem perl modules... Its a pain having to do this each time want to run yum though.
Jason