yum update failure - perl

[Andy Willis]

Attempting to update perl and I receive:
[d:\]yum update
Setting up Update Process
Error: Package tuple ('perl', 'i386', '0', '5.16.1', '0.7.oc00') could not be found in rpmdb

Tried:
yum clean packages
yum clean metadata
yum clean all
then a:
yum check-update
which shows (same results from Netlabs servers):
cpio.i386 2.11-4.oc00 netlabs-rel-2rosenthals
gawk.i386 4.0.0-2.oc00 netlabs-rel-2rosenthals
libc.i386 0.6.5-16.oc00 netlabs-rel-2rosenthals
libc-devel.i386 0.6.5-16.oc00 netlabs-rel-2rosenthals
perl.i386 5.16.1-0.8.oc00 netlabs-exp-2rosenthals
perl-libs.i386 5.16.1-0.8.oc00 netlabs-exp-2rosenthals

[Andy Willis]

also tried:
[d:\]yum downgrade perl
Setting up Downgrade Process
No Match for available package: perl-5.10.0-3.oc00.i386
Nothing to do

[Andy Willis]

I have no idea on how to clean up the issue past what I have tried.

[Andy Willis]

I eventually was able to clean this up, I'm not sure now but I think I had ended up nuking the rpm database.