Igor,


On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Igor Sfiligoi wrote:

> Dear Scientific Linux maintainers.
>
> Recently CMS started to move to SL5 and we noticed that one of the 
> compatibility libraries we rely on does not come in the 32bit flavor in the 
> SL5 64-bit distribution.
>
> The RPM name is:
> openssl097a-0.9.7a 
> <http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/53/x86_64/SL/openssl097a-0.9.7a-9.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm>
>
> The 64 bit repository contains only the 64 bit version:
> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/53/x86_64/SL/
>
> One needs to get the 32-bit version from the 32-bit repository
> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/53/i386/SL/
> which is very annoying, since it cannot be done easily with yum.
>
> Would it be possible to fix this?
> And possibly push the change to Red Hat as well, so that it gets fix in all 
> RH-clones (like CentOS)?

In order to convince RedHat to put this in there needs to be a good case 
for this.  Can you provide more detail as to why you need it and why the 
64 bit library is not suffcient.

-Connie Sieh
  >
> Thanks,
>  Igor Sfiligoi
>  UCSD CMS T2
>
>