Takashi Ichihara wrote:
> David Nitz wrote
>> Hi,
>>
>> I did (or tried to do) a yum-update upgrade from 5.2 to 5.3.
>> The files in /etc/yum.repos.d/ point to the 5.3 repositories,
>> but /etc/issue still says SL 5.2.  Yumex does not show any
>> available updates.
>>
>> Is the wrong /etc/issue an oversight in
>> the upgrade, or does it indicate a problem?
>>
>>   
> Hi
> 
>  We have been successfully updated from SL5.0  to SL5.1 and from
> SL5.1 to SL5.2 (both i386 and x86_64) so far, by
> 1) Changing  /etc/yum.repos.d/files  point to the 5.0 -> 5.1 (or 5.1-> 5.2)
> 2) yum update yum
> 3) yum clean all
> 4) yum update
> (This method seems to be not supported officially. So please try at your 
> own risk)

Over a period of months, or all in a rush just now? Going directly from 
5.0 to 5.3 should work, and a lot more quickly.
> 
>  However, from SL5.2 to SL5.3, yum update method as mentioned above
> for several nodes (in which packages are  not fully installed) succeeded .
> But on the several  nodes (full-installed node) this method failed with the
> conflicts relating to the Perl modules.
> 
> (From SL5.2 to SL5.3)
> yum update :
> Transaction Summary
> ================================================================================ 
> 
> Install     14 Package(s)       Update     422 Package(s)       
> Remove       1 Package(s)  Total download size: 1.2 G
> Is this ok [y/N]: y
> Downloading Packages:
> Running rpm_check_debug
> Running Transaction Test
> 
> Transaction Check Error:
>  file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/List/Util.pm from install of 
> perl-5.8.8-18.el5 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3

I agree with Valery, it's likely to be packages of different architectures.

Here's how to check:
rpm -q perl
Probably it will be listed twice.
Another check:



20:55 [summer@bobtail ~]$ rpm -qa perl\* --qf '%{name} %{arch}\n'
perl x86_64
perl-BSD-Resource x86_64
and so on.

I don't know the proper resolution to this, but Troy and Connie will 
probably tell us.


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