Re: [CentOS] bug in repo affecting perl

2012-02-15 Thread Blake Hudson
Johnny Hughes wrote the following on 2/15/2012 4:39 AM: > I am adding the i386 version of perl to x86_64 extras for c5 now ... > it will go out to the mirrors soon. I appreciate the help Johnny. Thanks, --Blake ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.o

Re: [CentOS] bug in repo affecting perl

2012-02-15 Thread Blake Hudson
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote the following on 2/14/2012 5:59 PM: > > BTW: why do you need 32bit perl? Since the package exists and you have > it installed, I guess there must be use-cases... but perl being > interpreted, I'm curious as to what they could be. I did not install it intentionally. I at

Re: [CentOS] bug in repo affecting perl

2012-02-15 Thread Blake Hudson
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote the following on 2/14/2012 5:54 PM: > > yes it should be udpated. > I was just pointing out that the i386 version you have installed must > have come from extras, since your x86_64 system cannot see the i386 > versions available in the base+updates i386 repos that you s

Re: [CentOS] bug in repo affecting perl

2012-02-15 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 02/14/2012 12:59 PM, Blake Hudson wrote: > > Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote the following on 2/13/2012 9:11 PM: >> why do you think there's a problem? if you have an x86_64 system, you >> are expected to use x86_64 perl, and that's what you have in the os >> and updates dir for that arch, with the

Re: [CentOS] bug in repo affecting perl

2012-02-14 Thread John R Pierce
On 02/14/12 3:59 PM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > BTW: why do you need 32bit perl? Since the package exists and you have > it installed, I guess there must be use-cases... but perl being > interpreted, I'm curious as to what they could be. usually in my experience, the requirement for 32 bit perl

Re: [CentOS] bug in repo affecting perl

2012-02-14 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > Blake Hudson wrote: >> >> >> Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote the following on 2/13/2012 9:11 PM: >>> why do you think there's a problem? if you have an x86_64 system, you >>> are expected to use x86_64 perl, and that's what you have in the os >>> and updates dir for that ar

Re: [CentOS] bug in repo affecting perl

2012-02-14 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Blake Hudson wrote: > > > Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote the following on 2/13/2012 9:11 PM: >> why do you think there's a problem? if you have an x86_64 system, you >> are expected to use x86_64 perl, and that's what you have in the os >> and updates dir for that arch, with the newer version in update

Re: [CentOS] bug in repo affecting perl

2012-02-14 Thread Blake Hudson
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote the following on 2/13/2012 9:11 PM: > why do you think there's a problem? if you have an x86_64 system, you > are expected to use x86_64 perl, and that's what you have in the os > and updates dir for that arch, with the newer version in updates. Same > if you have an

Re: [CentOS] bug in repo affecting perl

2012-02-13 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Blake Hudson wrote: > I seem to running into the following bug when attempting to perform a > yum update: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=5322 > > I have been skipping perl to move on. However, I am unable to update > perl to the latest i386 release due to what appears to be a mistake in > the

[CentOS] bug in repo affecting perl

2012-02-13 Thread Blake Hudson
I seem to running into the following bug when attempting to perform a yum update: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=5322 I have been skipping perl to move on. However, I am unable to update perl to the latest i386 release due to what appears to be a mistake in the centOS repo. The CentOS mirr