yum upgrade trouble

[Tom G. Christensen]

Koopmann, Jan-Peter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> after installing MailScanner via install.sh my yum upgrade gives me
> trouble:
> 
> Transaction Check Error:
>   file /usr/share/man/man3/File::Temp.3pm.gz from install of
> perl-File-Temp-0.20-1.el5.rf conflicts with file from package
> perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
>   file /usr/share/man/man3/bigint.3pm.gz from install of
> perl-bignum-0.23-1.el5.rf conflicts with file from package
> perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
>   file /usr/share/man/man3/bignum.3pm.gz from install of
> perl-bignum-0.23-1.el5.rf conflicts with file from package
> perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
> 
> etc. Any ideas? Is this related to install.sh installing its own perl
> modules in any way?
> 
Don't know for sure but could be, since install.sh likes to use --force 
to replace files that are part of other packages.
Hugo van der Kooij is maintaining a yum repo that attempts to solve this 
problem.
Most of the info is in the list archives but you can have a look at 
http://yum.vanderkooij.org/ for a bit of info.

To solve your immediate problem you can manually install the perl update 
with rpm -Uvh --force, just make sure the conflicting files are innocent 
ones like the manpages listed above. Otherwise you risk finding yourself 
with a broken MailScanner.

-tgc