Hi Troy,
On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 15:36 -0500, Troy Dawson wrote:
> Hello,
> In SL 5, there is the package openssl097a the is used for compatibility
> with packages compiled on SL 4.
> The problem is that in SL4 x86_64, there was both openssl.i386 and
> openssl.x86_64. But in SL5 there is only openssl097a x86_64. So a
> program compiled on SL4 x86_64, might not be able to run on SL5 x86_64.
> So we are planning on including the i386 version of openssl097a in the
> x86_64 version.
> Thus far, all of our tests have worked and we feel this will not have a
> negative impact on any machine. But we would still like to put this out
> in testing.
we've been installing this package on our SL5 x86_64 systems for more
than two years now.
Maybe I could persuade you to include compat-readline43.i386 as well?
The same reasons apply, and there's even less potential for problems.
Apparently, both will be included with TUV's 5.4 release (see BZ
#482800).
Cheers,
Stephan
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