CentOS perl issues

[Marc Lucke]

I like to use rpmforge because of updated (from CentOS5 repos) 
spamassassin and clamav and am quite happy to update manually.  With the 
repo turned off this works:

yum --enablerepo=rpmforge -y install clamav spamassassin

Of course you need to update the perl module with something like

cpan Mail::SpamAssassin && sa-update

There's probably a way to tell yum to update only these packages from 
rpmforge automatically but I have bothered with that.  It does annoy me 
that the rpmforge and centos repos clash on perl but meh - what can you 
do and would you bother?


Marc

Lance Haig wrote:
> This is one of the key reason I love this list.
>
> Thanks for all the informed help and suggestions
>
> Lance
>
> On 07/04/2010 06:07, Iulian L Dragomir wrote:
>> For one time occurrence use
>>
>> yum --exclude=package* update
>>
>> In your case if you want to exclude only those 6 packages :
>>
>> yum --exclude=perl-bignum --exclude=perl-File-Temp
>> --exclude=perl-Math-BigRat --exclude=perl-Sys-Syslog
>> --exclude=perl-Test-Harness --exclude=perl-Test-Simple update
>>
>> This 6 packages are for now the only packages that have older versions
>> in mailscanner installation comparing to the rpmforge repo. In the
>> future this list will not remain constant.
>>
>> If you want to exclude all perl packages  use for one time update
>>
>> yum --exclude=perl* update
>>
>> If you need a more permanent solution use Craig's solution or look in
>> to yum-protect-packages plug-in or use a more drastic solution
>> (Michael's solution will disable rpmforge all together ) Other
>> solutions are documented in the archive.
>>
>> Fore MailScanner updates use "./install.sh reinstall".  More info on
>> this subject here
>>
>> http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2009-April/090861.html 
>>
>>
>>
>> Iulian L.D.
>>    
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