perl update on x86_64

[Bob Deblier]

On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 21:34 +0200, Zoltan Kota wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It seems updating perl on x86_64 is broken. Is it only for me, or should I 
> send it to bugzilla? 
> 
> $ yum update
> 
> Transaction Check Error:   file /usr/share/man/man1/c2ph.1.gz from install 
> of perl-5.8.5-11.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9
>   file /usr/share/man/man1/cpan.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-11.FC3 
> conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9
> ...
> 
> Zoltan
> 

I had the same problem.

Investigation turned out that two versions of perl were installed on my
system: x86_64 and i386. After rpm --erase-ing the i386 version, yum
updated without any problems. Maybe a missing dependency?

Sincerely,

Bob Deblier