On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 08:02:16AM -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
It could go in EPEL or upstresm in RHEL's "Software Collections Library". But that would be a parallel build, available for alternate compilation, not an in-place replacement. An in-place replacement would be *hard*, and would probably be better slated for RHEL 8.
It *is* slated for RHEL 8, as you can see: http://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/rhel/rhel-8-beta/baseos/source/Packages/ contains openssl-1.1.1-6.el8.src.rpm.
I've not heard any progress on that since the beta in November: My guess, as RHEL and thus CentOS has gotten larger and IBM bought Red Hat, is not to hope for RHEL 8 before June.
There is an agreement for IBM to purchase Red Hat; this has not happened yet and has no impact on anything like this.