Description of problem: Since approximately Wednesday or Thursday of last week, the perl package (and various perl-* packages) have broken dependencies and will not update with `dnf update'. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 23 GNU/Linux kernel 4.2.7-300.fc23.x86_64 and the following: =========================================================== Package Arch Version =========================================================== perl x86_64 4:5.22.1-350.fc23 perl-ExtUtils-Embed noarch 1.32-350.fc23 perl-ExtUtils-Miniperl noarch 1.05-350.fc23 perl-IO-Zlib noarch 1:1.10-350.fc23 perl-Locale-Maketext-Simple noarch 1:0.21-350.fc23 perl-Math-BigInt noarch 1.9997-350.fc23 perl-Math-BigInt-FastCalc x86_64 0.31-350.fc23 perl-Math-BigRat noarch 0.2608-350.fc23 perl-Math-Complex noarch 1.59-350.fc23 perl-Module-Loaded noarch 1:0.08-350.fc23 perl-Time-Piece x86_64 1.29-350.fc23 perl-bignum noarch 0.39-350.fc23 perl-core x86_64 5.22.1-350.fc23 perl-devel x86_64 4:5.22.1-350.fc23 perl-libs x86_64 4:5.22.1-350.fc23 perl-macros x86_64 4:5.22.1-350.fc23 perl-open noarch 1.10-350.fc23 How reproducible: 100% on this system. Steps to Reproduce: 1. run `dnf update' Actual results: dnf reports that the above packages have broken dependencies. Expected results: dnf is able to update all packages that have updates. Additional info: On this system, everything related to Perl has only ever been installed/updated by the package management system (formerly yum and more recently dnf) and there have never previously been any Perl-related problems reported.
I regret, but you (and dnf) are not providing sufficient details to be able to reproduce your problem. Please try again, using "dnf --refresh --best update" and attach the output to this BZ.
Ralf, Thank you for your message. That gives me: Error: package polymake-2.14r1-2.fc23.x86_64 requires perl = 4:5.22.0, but none of the providers can be installed. And indeed, package polymake turns out to have a hardcoded dependency on the old perl 4:5.22.0 while the available version is 4:5.22.1. This has already been reported as bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1292869 So it's not a perl package problem at all. This bug (1293143) can be closed. Sorry for the noise. Thank you.
Closing as a duplicate of bug #1292869 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1292869 ***