I have issues updating a few packages. I tryied using yum instead of up2date. Based on other posts, it seems that it would be best to ignore them. I looked at 'man yum' and wondered if I need to list all of the pagages at once, or can I just add them to exclude one at a time and them run 'yum update'?

Here is what I get for transaction errors and I'm running FC3 64:

Transaction Check Error: file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/File/Path.pm from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9
file /usr/share/man/man1/c2ph.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9
file /usr/share/man/man1/cpan.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9
file /usr/share/man/man1/dprofpp.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9
file /usr/share/man/man1/enc2xs.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9
file /usr/share/man/man1/find2perl.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9
file /usr/share/man/man1/h2ph.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9
file /usr/share/man/man1/h2xs.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9
file /usr/share/man/man1/libnetcfg.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9
file /usr/share/man/man1/perlbug.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9
file /usr/share/man/man1/perlcc.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9
file /usr/share/man/man1/perlivp.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9
file /usr/share/man/man1/piconv.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9
file /usr/share/man/man1/pl2pm.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9
file /usr/share/man/man1/pod2html.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9
file /usr/share/man/man1/pod2latex.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9
file /usr/share/man/man1/pod2man.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9
file /usr/share/man/man1/pod2text.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9
file /usr/share/man/man1/pod2usage.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9
file /usr/share/man/man1/podchecker.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9
file /usr/share/man/man1/podselect.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9
file /usr/share/man/man1/prove.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9
file /usr/share/man/man1/psed.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9
file /usr/share/man/man1/pstruct.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9
file /usr/share/man/man1/s2p.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9
file /usr/share/man/man1/splain.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9
file /usr/share/man/man1/xsubpp.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.5-12.FC3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.5-9

Here is what I tried:

[root@localhost titty]# yum update --exclude=perl-5.8.5-12.FC3
Setting up Update Process
Setting up Repos
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
updates-released 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
base : ################################################## 2852/2852
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 372 kB 00:03
MD Read : ################################################## 963/963
updates-re: ################################################## 963/963
Could not find update match for --exclude=perl-5.8.5-12.FC3
No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion
[root@localhost titty]#

Any suggestions?

I also tried this:

[root@localhost titty]# yum update --except=perl.x86_64
Setting up Update Process
Setting up Repos
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
updates-released 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
base : ################################################## 2852/2852
updates-re: ################################################## 978/978
Could not find update match for --except=perl.x86_64
No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion

I'm finding that this is common with 64-bit FC3. I'm considering moving to 32-bit FC3.

32--bit fixed my problem.