Re: [CentOS] Re: OpenSSL binary compatibility between CentOS 4 and 5

Ed Schofield wrote:

What I'm wondering is why, although most packages have both i386 and x86_64 versions visible to my yum client, this isn't true for the openssl packages.

in most cases, the backword or compat packages wont be multilib ok, and are only published for the arch they are hosted in. there are some exceptions, but this rule is mostly true.

if you look at http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/ you can see all the packages included in the distro itself, not including any external repositories, and openssl097a is only published for x86_64 in the x86_64 tree.

btw, if you primary app is 32bit, why are you even running a x86_64 environment ?