On 11/13/07 08:55:15, Jason Bertoch wrote: > > Hi, I'm running Fedora 7 and this morning yum wanted to update > several > Perl > packages. After applying the update, I've been living a nightmare > with > mismatched version numbers. It seems that someone may be working on > it because > another release became available, but there are still a number of > problems. The > current version available is perl-5.8.8-26 which seems to be built > for > the > 2.6.20-1.3002.fc6xen architecture. Attempting to update any other > modules via > CPAN throws the following error. Any ideas on when this will be > fixed, or how I > can repair it myself? My mail system relies heavily on Perl and it's > down as a > result. > > Error: Errno architecture (i386-linux-thread- > multi-2.6.20-1.3001.fc6xen) > does > not match executable architecture (i386-linux-thread- > multi-2.6.20-1.3002.fc6xen) > at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Errno.pm line 11. I've done the same thing without experiencing problems. %rpm -q perl perl-5.8.8-26.fc7 perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) configuration: Platform: osname=linux, osvers=2.6.20-1.3002.fc6xen, archname=i386-linux- thread-multi uname='linux xenbuilder1.fedora.redhat.com 2.6.20-1.3002.fc6xen #1 smp mon aug 13 14:21:21 edt 2007 i686 athlon i386 gnulinux ' ... Perhaps a reinstall of perl? FWIW, I'm experiencing a different problem with CPAN, started without any obvious connection to anything, and before the update.