[CentOS] OpenSSL binary compatibility between CentOS 4 and 5

Karanbir Singh mail-lists at karan.org
Thu Dec 13 00:23:59 UTC 2007


Ed Schofield wrote:
> We are trying to install binaries for gLite (a huge toolkit for grid
> computing linked against upstream v4 libraries) on CentOS 5. I was under
> the impression that this would be possible because v5 is
> "binary-compatible" with v4. But it seems this "binary compatibility"
> doesn't extend to OpenSSL. What, then, is the scope of the upstream and
> CentOS binary compatibility guarantees? (OpenSSL is not yet in the LSB;
> is this significant?)


btw, does openssl097a in centos5 not give you what you need ?

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