Perl update dependency problems with yum fedora core 16
 

For some time now have had yum dependency problems on fc16 with perl updates. Every time I update the system I have to use --skip-broken inorder to run the rest of the yum updates. After many serches have no idea how to correct this.

Sounds like you may have installed something from the 'testing' repo at some point, if you can determine the package/s and roll it/them back to the base versions you should be ok.

I looked at my yum.repos.d and found mirrors-rpmforge-testing. I have commented this out but from what I gather the damage has already been done. I have no clue how to roll the files in question back to the base versions.

perl-Module-Pluggable.noarch 1:3.90-193.fc16
perl-Pod-Escapes.noarch 1:1.04-193.fc16

I checked my yum.repos.d and did have the mirrors-rpmforge-testing repo in there. I have edited it out now but from what I gather the damage has already been done. I have no clue how to bring the files in question back to the base versions other that reinstalling the system.

Thanks for the reply kbp!

If the testing repo is removed/disabled, try 'yum clean all' then 'yum downgrade <packagename>', I haven't had to use this myself so no promises.

Pearl Update Problems.
 

Keep forgetting to reply to the last post I received on this problem Eventually I gave up and reloaded the OS from scratch. I tried everything I could think of with no luck. Thanks for all the help on this issue.

I hit this going from f15 to f17. In addition to the yum cleaning mentioned above, this finally worked for me:

yumdownloader perl perl-libs
rpm -Uhv --nodeps perl[whatever] perl-libs[whatever]

yum --noplugins --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=fedora --enablerepo=updates update perl\*
yum --noplugins update perl\*

yum was trying to pull in some .i686 packages as well (on an x86_64 machine). This method avoided that as well.