From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Galeon/1.3.21 (Debian package 1.3.21-1+gnome28+1) Description of problem: having just finished a FC3 install on an x86_64 system, I went to upgrade it with yum. the following transaction check error occured. using --exclude=perl let everything else update, but even then this transaction check occurs if I cease to use --exclude=perl. Transaction Check Error: file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/File/Path.pm from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/c2ph.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/cpan.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/dprofpp.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/enc2xs.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/find2perl.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/h2ph.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/h2xs.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/libnetcfg.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/perlbug.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/perlcc.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/perlivp.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/piconv.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/pl2pm.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/pod2html.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/pod2latex.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/pod2man.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/pod2text.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/pod2usage.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/podchecker.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/podselect.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/prove.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/psed.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/pstruct.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/s2p.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/splain.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 file /usr/share/man/man1/xsubpp.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): perl-5.8.5-9 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install FC3 2. Run yum upgrade 3. see it fail 4. Run yum --exclude=perl 5. watch it work 6. run yum upgrade again 7. see it still fail. Actual Results: see transaction check error above Expected Results: perl should upgrade Additional info:
Sorry about the inconvenience. We made a mistake when shipping FC3. perl is not a multilib package. The only way to fix this is to use "rpm -e perl". *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 156288 ***
Oops, I meant rpm -e perl.i386