On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 01:12:03 -0700
someone <plu...@robinson-west.com> wrote:

> To get spamcannibal to work, I need to replace CentOS 5.6's
> perl-5.8.8 with perl-5.12.1 or better.  How do I get yum update
> to work despite the fact that I'm breaking the perl
> dependencies?  Can I get yum to report the dependencies and
> then ignore them?  I need to know what I thinks is missing so I
> can cpan2rpm install them...
> 
> Michael C. Robinson

The "deplist" command to yum will list the dependencies for a
package.  Note that there are a lot of them for perl.  You'll
probably have to enable the Fedora repositories (fedora.repo,
fedora-updates.repo) so that yum will see the version of perl that
you want.  Then you should be able to do

  yum upgrade perl-5.12.3-143.fc14

That should pull in perl and all of its dependencies.  (I'm
still running F14; I have no idea if F15 has a later release of
perl.)

WARNING:  I THINK this will work, but I've never done it before.
I have no idea what other things might be pulled in if you do
this.  YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

Good Luck!

--Dale

--
Ivanova:  Always finding the good in any situation, eh Captain?
Sheridan:  Absolutely.  If I didn't, I might end up like you.
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