Eva Myers wrote:
> Recent yum updates on my 64-bit SL50 and SL52 machines have been
> failing with the following error message:
> 
> Transaction Check Error:
>   file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/File/Path.pm from install of
> +perl-5.8.8-32.el5_5.1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
> +perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3.i386
>   file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/List/Util.pm from install of
> +perl-5.8.8-32.el5_5.1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
> +perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3.i386
> [...]
> 
> On 64-bit SL54 and 32-bit SL52, the updates worked perfectly.  Please
> could someone look into this bug?
> Thanks,
> Eva.

Hi Eva,
Thank you for reading the errata email.  In it it states

"NOTE: SL 50-52 x86_64 releases originally had a perl.i386 package.  It
was taken out of the x86_64 SL5 distribution and is not part of this
security update.  If you have one of these earlier SL5 x86_64
distributions and your perl update does not work due to conflicts, you
should do a "yum remove perl.i386" before doing your update on these
earlier SL 5 x86_64 releases."

To fix your problem, please do

   yum remove perl.i386

Thanks
Troy
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