Bug 104978

Summary: Perl will not upgrade
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Stephen Lockley <slockley>
Component: up2dateAssignee: Adrian Likins <alikins>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fanny Augustin <fmoquete>
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Version: 9CC: gafton, mihai.ibanescu
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Description Stephen Lockley 2003-09-24 08:17:47 UTC
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Description of problem:
Tried up2date -uf perl. I am getting the same error as before :-

I have tried to run up2date and have seleted Perl but I get the following 
error:-
  
There was a package dependency problem. The message was.  

Unresolvable chain of dependencies.
  
  Perl-5.8.0-88.3    requires perl-NDBM_file <= 1:1.75-34.99.6.
  
  I get this error on both of my servers.


More information. 

rpm -q perl
perl-5.8.0-88

rpm -q up2date
up2date-3.1.23.2-1



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.up2date --nox -uf perl
2.
3.
    

Actual Results:  There was a package dependency problem. The message was.  

Unresolvable chain of dependencies.
  
  Perl-5.8.0-88.3    requires perl-NDBM_file <= 1:1.75-34.99.6

Expected Results:  Updated

Additional info:

Comment 1 vivian_huang 2003-09-25 01:28:18 UTC
this is caused by the perl-NDBM_File not being removed on an upgrade from RH7.x
to RH8 or RH9.  The solution is to rpm -e perl-NDBM_File by hand; up2date should
then work.