The long road to yum

[Hugo van der Kooij]

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Hi,

I tried to create an up-to-date yum repository.

The issue with Centos 5 is that a recent perl upgrade now means that the
native IO module (v1.22) results in more conflicts with the seperate
v1.23 module.

The older ones just had a conflict on the manual pages and I could work
around those by splitting the package. But now I have to do something
more drastic.

I am looking into splitting the default perl package and splitting of
the IO stuff in a seperate IO package.

Then there should not be a conflict as the seperate but more up-to-date
perl-IO package would replace the one created from the main perl package.

But it would make the repository a bit harder to maintain. As I need to
build perl itself on each upstream update. And I can only maintain
Centos 5 i386 that way for now.

I think the effort I am willing to put into this makes it clear how much
I hate the --force option.

Hugo.

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