[BlueOnyx:02047] Re: Perl conflicts in upgrade attempt

[Rodrigo Ordonez Licona]

I was able to solve this by uninstalling the conflicting packages with yum
remove.

Did it one by one, and finally everything updated correctly

Good luck

Rodrigo O


-----Original Message-----
From: blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it] On
Behalf Of Michael Stauber
Sent: Miércoles, 12 de Agosto de 2009 08:08
To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List
Subject: [BlueOnyx:02044] Re: Perl conflicts in upgrade attempt

Hi Chuck,

> That is a fairly stock BX system.  And I was simply attempting to 
> perform a "yum upgrade".  Perl is the only package that will not upgrade.
>
> But this system does have the Nuonce 
> MailScanner/Spamassassin/MailWatch
> installed on it.  

That's the problem <sigh>.

The NuOnce MailScanner was designed for BlueQuartz - not BlueOnyx. It should
not have been installed on BlueOnyx, as those PKGs contains Perl related
RPMs compiled for the Perl on BlueQuartz. And those RPMs were forced aboard
during the PKG installation, which now causes this grief.

> I had no idea that it so brutally installed packages when it was 
> installed - its worked OK from day one.  But now, the Perl upgrade 
> problem.

Yeah. Typically the PKGs contain some info in them that defines which
"product" (Qube3, RaQ550, BlueQuartz, BlueOnyx) they're compatible with. 

Usually you shouldn't be able to install a PKG on a system that it wasn't
designed for. Unfortunately some vendors put wildcards into the product
field, which now make it possible to install incompatible PKGs on BlueOnyx.
The wildcards in NuOnce PKGs unfortunately cover both BlueQuartz and
BlueOnyx.

Hence we will have to do something with the PKG install mechanism to prevent
people (for their own good) from installing old NuOnce BlueQuartz PKGs on
BlueOnyx. :o/

> Do you think that Perl not upgrading will cause any future problems?

Hard to say. Does Yum simply bug out and not install any patches, or does it
just complain about the Perl related RPMs, but does everything else OK?

--
With best regards

Michael Stauber

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