On Sunday 24 Jul 2005 23:18, Blake Thornton wrote: > > If you don't understand what your problem is, the correct way to fix it > > is definitely NOT to install or uninstall random packages, and hoping for > > the best. > > > > There is absolutely nothing that qmail needs from Perl. Whatever your > > Qmail problem is, it has nothing to do with Perl. > > > > Unless, of course, you've hacked a basic Qmail setup with some > > piggy-backed spaghetti code that might use Perl for some particular > > purpose. Yes, then, but only then, would a Perl upgrade _might_ cause > > something to break. > > But you are not answering his question. > > Here's what you do, you can either install the old version using the force > option or you can just uninstall perl (as well as the programs that have > perl as a dependency) and then install your older version of perl and then > try to get everything else working again. Hmmm.. I don't like the idea of "force" being suggested, I would suggest "rpm -Uvh --oldpackage blah.rpm" would be the better option.. assuming the Perl update has caused your problem? -Colin -- Fedora Core 4, Custom Built Kernel 2.6.12-ck3 KDE-Redhat-3.4.1-1.3.fc4.kde Registered Linux user number #342953
