We've got a problem on our 64bit SL5.0 machines.

When we take an rync of the updates from this site:

rsync://rsync.scientificlinux.org/scientific/50/x86_64/updates/security/

It includes this i386 RPM into our copy of the x86_64 RPM updates:

perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3.i386.rpm

Which clashes with the other perl rpm (perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3.x86_64.rpm) 
which "yum info perl" confirms is installed.

  e.g, on a very newly built 64bit box:

---snip

[root@lossie yum.repos.d]# uname -a
Linux lossie 2.6.18-8.1.3.el5 #1 SMP Mon Apr 30 14:35:55 EDT 2007 x86_64 
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@lossie yum.repos.d]# rpm -q perl
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
[root@lossie yum.repos.d]# rpm -qa | grep "^perl-5"
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
[root@lossie yum.repos.d]# yum install -y perl
...
...
---> Package perl.i386 4:5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 set to be updated
...
 ============================================================================
  Package                 Arch       Version          Repository 
Size
 ============================================================================
Installing:
  perl                    i386       4:5.8.8-10.el5_2.3  sl5-updates 
     12 M
Installing for dependencies:
  gdbm                    i386       1.8.0-26.2.1     sl5-cd 
  27 k

Transaction Summary
 ============================================================================
Install      2 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)

Total download size: 12 M
Downloading Packages:
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test


Transaction Check Error:
   file /usr/share/man/man1/c2ph.1.gz from install of 
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
   file /usr/share/man/man1/cpan.1.gz from install of 
perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3


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Either I'm collecting my RPM updates from the wrong site or the i386 
perl update RPM should not be in that location.

But then I might be the only person experiencing this, in which case I'd 
welcome advise.

Yours
Faye

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