Can't install CentOS 5.2 update?

[Scott Silva]

on 6-26-2008 2:50 PM Henry Kwan spake the following:
> Randal, Phil <prandal <at> herefordshire.gov.uk> writes:
> 
>> Don't panic:
>>
>> First off, make sure you have the latest MailScanner to hand to
>> reinstall.
>>
>> service MailScanner stop
>> service MailScanner startin
>>
>> rpm -e perl-IO
>> rpm -e perl-Math-BigInt
>> rpm -e perl-Math-BigRat
>> rpm -e perl-bignum
>>
>> (and any other perl modules it complains about)
>>
>> yum update perl
>>
>> ... Reinstall MailScanner
>>
>> service MailScanner restart
>>
>> yum upgrade
> 
> Hmmm...  Took another look at the test box install log and noticed that once the
> upgrade happened, there was a failure at perl-Storable.
> 
> ---snip---
> t/weak................Weak references are not implemented in the version of perl
> at t/weak.t line 28
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at t/weak.t line 33.          
> t/weak................dubious
>         Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
> Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> t/weak.t     255 65280    ??   ??       %  ??
> 1 test skipped.        
> Failed 1/32 test scripts, 96.88% okay. 0/2190 subtests failed, 100.00% okay.
> make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.96991 (%build)
> ---snip---
> 
> But I guess it's not a big deal since perl-Storable was previously installed
> already.  Also, cpan was borked and would not update itself (install
> Bundle::CPAN).  But both items were resolved when I reinstalled
> Scalar-List-Utils-1.19.
> 
> Weird.
> 
You really should avoid CPAN with a rpm based distro. You will break something 
sooner or later.  I wish upstream would break that instead of some of the 
other things they break (like kernels)!


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You hope everybody uses it, and
you notice quickly if they don't!!!!

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