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

Thu Dec 13 01:12:40 UTC 2007
Ed Schofield <edschofield at gmail.com>

On Dec 13, 2007 12:00 PM, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:
> on 12/12/2007 4:56 PM Ed Schofield spake the following:
>
> > On Dec 13, 2007 11:23 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:
> >
> >> btw, does openssl097a in centos5 not give you what you need ?
> >
> > Thanks to both you and Scott for pointing this out. I had completely
> > missed this. This will give us exactly what we need.
> >
> > By the way, do you know why yum sees only the x86_64 version of this
> > package? It seems necessary to fetch the i386 .rpm from a mirror as a
> > workaround.
>
> Yum tries to load packages that match your running architecture.

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.

-- Ed