Re: [SLUG] Yum / RPM Update Problem

2008-01-02 Thread David P
Seems that the updated perl-5.8.8-12 comes with perl modules that were previously held in separate packages, such as perl-Math-BigInt, perl-Math-BigRat, perl-bignum and perl-Sys-Syslog. Since the contents of those packages are in perl-5.8.8-12 now, you could probably uninstall them as you

Re: [SLUG] Yum / RPM Update Problem

2008-01-02 Thread Nigel Allen
On 2/01/2008 9:20 PM, David P wrote: Seems that the updated perl-5.8.8-12 comes with perl modules that were previously held in separate packages, such as perl-Math-BigInt, perl-Math-BigRat, perl-bignum and perl-Sys-Syslog. Since the contents of those packages are in perl-5.8.8-12 now, you could

[SLUG] Yum / RPM Update Problem

2008-01-01 Thread Nigel Allen
Greetings I have just noticed that one of our servers is reporting an error from the nightly yum update. Not being a perl affecionado, I thought that someone here might be able to shed a little light on what I should do? I presume I need to do an rpm -e --nodeps but I'm not sure what to do