(perl update clash) FC3 x86_64 Important Announcement

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Mon May 2 22:31:49 UTC 2005


Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 11:25:50AM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> 
>>Unfortunately we made a mistake with the original FC3 x86_64 and shipped 
>>i386 perl by accident when it was never meant to be multilib.  This 
>>causes updates to clash and fail on FC3 x86_64.  It is wrong to add i386 
>>perl to that repository, so the only way to recover is to use:
>>
>>yum remove perl.i386
> 
> 
> Aren't these kind of bugs things you have to live with for the rest of
> the distro's EOL? E.g. keep perl multilib in FC3, have it fixed in FC4
> (and its anaconda) and bite the bullet and provide i386 updates for
> another 6 months?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=156658
Anaconda upgrade should remove perl.i386 is filed here.  It wont be an 
easy fix unfortunately.




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