"I had yum-priorities installed but did some fine(r) tuning, added your patch and all seems to have gone without a hitch on the CentOS 5.2 machine. Thank you so much for the prompt solution!"
I am in the same boat... what did you change using yum priorities? Where and how did you apply the patch? Thanks. On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Thomas M. Jaeger <tho...@barharbor.com> wrote: > I had yum-priorities installed but did some fine(r) tuning, added your patch > and all seems to have gone without a hitch on the CentOS 5.2 machine. Thank > you so much for the prompt solution! > > > Thomas M. Jaeger > Computer Technician, A.A.S. > tho...@barharbor.com > thomasmjae...@roadrunner.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Huff [mailto:sh...@vecna.org] > Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:00 AM > To: qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com > Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] perl-Getopt-Long conflict with qtp-newmodel > > > On Mar 24, 2009, at 10:24 AM, Thomas M. Jaeger wrote: > >> Did "yum update -y" and qmailtoaster-plus updated. Then when trying >> to run qtp-newmodel through qtp-menu, all current toaster packages >> download for install. However, when qtp-newmodel tries to update >> perl modules, I get a "Transaction Check Error" that states a man >> file conflict between perl-Getopt-Long and a file with >> perl-5.8.8-15.el5_2.1. Below is the perl install section of qtp- >> newmodel. Running on CentOS 5.2 (yum updated to all current >> packages). I tried to search the archives but had no success >> finding any similar problem. Maybe I am not searching correctly or >> you might have a new suggestion as what I should do to get updated? > > ok, there are two problems in play here: > > 1) you have not configured yum to prevent third-party repositories > from clobbering system packages. to do this, follow the instructions > here: > > http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities > > however, just doing this will not be sufficient to help you... > > 2) qtp-newmodel uses RPM package names (following the rpmforge naming > convention) to model Perl dependencies; a better way is to use RPM's > own Perl-specific dependency format, e.g. 'perl(LWP::UserAgent)' > instead of 'perl-LWP-UserAgent'. this enables yum to be more flexible > about dependency solving and not try to install a third-party package > which will conflict with an existing core package. > > attached is a patch to qtp-newmodel which makes the appropriate > changes; i just did a cursory test on my own system, and it seems to > work OK. Jake, please consider merging it for a future release? FYI, > if QmailToaster needs specific versions of Perl modules, RPM's Perl > dependency syntax supports that as well, e.g. 'perl(LWP::UserAgent) >= > 5.805' instead of 'perl(LWP::UserAgent)'. > > so, to sum up: > > Thomas, please configure the priorities plugin to protect your core > packages from being clobbered. > > Jake, please modify qtp-newmodel so that it doesn't needlessly try to > clobber core packages. :) > > -steve > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.278 / Virus Database: 270.11.26/2020 - Release Date: 03/24/09 > 09:19:00 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Managed Qmailtoaster servers are now available > Visit http://qmailtoaster.com/QMTManaged.html to order yours today! > > Qmailtoaster is sponsored by Vickers Consulting Group ( www.vickersconsulting.com) > > Please visit qmailtoaster.com for the latest news, updates, and packages. > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: testing-unsubscr...@qmailtoaster.com > For additional commands, e-mail: testing-h...@qmailtoaster.com > > >
