On Wednesday, November 14, 2007 6:48 AM Dave Mitchell wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 03:35:53PM -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote: >>> 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. >>> >>> 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. >> > > The OP's problem seems to be that architecture has got the kernel name > included in it for some reason, ie > > archname=i386-linux-thread-multi-2.6.20-1.3001.fc6xen) > instead of > archname=i386-linux-thread-multi > > which is very wrong, and will break CPAN modules on every kernel > update. > > Jason, what does perl -V show you? > I was forced into compiling perl from source to fix the issue. We've all fat-fingered something, but those updating the repositories need to be _way_ more careful than that.
