CentOS perl issues

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 09:57 +0100, Lance Haig wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am running CentOS 5 with MailScanner 4.78.17
> 
> I am trying to run yum update and I get the error below. Does anyone 
> have suggestions as to how I can get past this?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Lance
> 
> Transaction Check Error:
>    file /usr/share/man/man3/Math::BigRat.3pm.gz from install of 
> perl-Math-BigRat-0.24-1.el5.rf.noarch conflicts with file from package 
> perl-5.8.8-27.el5.i386
>    file /usr/share/man/man3/File::Temp.3pm.gz from install of 
> perl-File-Temp-0.22-1.el5.rf.noarch conflicts with file from package 
> perl-5.8.8-27.el5.i386
>    file /usr/bin/prove from install of 
> perl-Test-Harness-3.21-1.el5.rf.noarch conflicts with file from package 
> perl-5.8.8-27.el5.i386
>    file /usr/share/man/man1/prove.1.gz from install of 
> perl-Test-Harness-3.21-1.el5.rf.noarch conflicts with file from package 
> perl-5.8.8-27.el5.i386
>    file /usr/share/man/man3/Test::Harness.3pm.gz from install of 
> perl-Test-Harness-3.21-1.el5.rf.noarch conflicts with file from package 
> perl-5.8.8-27.el5.i386
>    file /usr/share/man/man3/Sys::Syslog.3pm.gz from install of 
> perl-Sys-Syslog-0.27-1.el5.rf.i386 conflicts with file from package 
> perl-5.8.8-27.el5.i386
>    file /usr/share/man/man3/Test::Builder.3pm.gz from install of 
> perl-Test-Simple-0.94-1.el5.rf.noarch conflicts with file from package 
> perl-5.8.8-27.el5.i386
>    file /usr/share/man/man3/Test::Builder::Module.3pm.gz from install of 
> perl-Test-Simple-0.94-1.el5.rf.noarch conflicts with file from package 
> perl-5.8.8-27.el5.i386
>    file /usr/share/man/man3/Test::Builder::Tester.3pm.gz from install of 
> perl-Test-Simple-0.94-1.el5.rf.noarch conflicts with file from package 
> perl-5.8.8-27.el5.i386
>    file /usr/share/man/man3/Test::Builder::Tester::Color.3pm.gz from 
> install of perl-Test-Simple-0.94-1.el5.rf.noarch conflicts with file 
> from package perl-5.8.8-27.el5.i386
>    file /usr/share/man/man3/Test::More.3pm.gz from install of 
> perl-Test-Simple-0.94-1.el5.rf.noarch conflicts with file from package 
> perl-5.8.8-27.el5.i386
>    file /usr/share/man/man3/Test::Simple.3pm.gz from install of 
> perl-Test-Simple-0.94-1.el5.rf.noarch conflicts with file from package 
> perl-5.8.8-27.el5.i386
>    file /usr/share/man/man3/Test::Tutorial.3pm.gz from install of 
> perl-Test-Simple-0.94-1.el5.rf.noarch conflicts with file from package 
> perl-5.8.8-27.el5.i386
>    file /usr/share/man/man3/bigint.3pm.gz from install of 
> perl-bignum-0.23-1.el5.rf.noarch conflicts with file from package 
> perl-5.8.8-27.el5.i386
>    file /usr/share/man/man3/bignum.3pm.gz from install of 
> perl-bignum-0.23-1.el5.rf.noarch conflicts with file from package 
> perl-5.8.8-27.el5.i386
>    file /usr/share/man/man3/bigrat.3pm.gz from install of 
> perl-bignum-0.23-1.el5.rf.noarch conflicts with file from package 
> perl-5.8.8-27.el5.i386
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add

exclude=perl-*

to /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo

Craig


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