Hi Troy,

On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 15:36 -0500, Troy Dawson wrote:
> Hello,
> In SL 5, there is the package openssl097a the is used for compatibility 
> with packages compiled on SL 4.
> The problem is that in SL4 x86_64, there was both openssl.i386 and 
> openssl.x86_64.  But in SL5 there is only openssl097a x86_64.  So a 
> program compiled on SL4 x86_64, might not be able to run on SL5 x86_64.
> So we are planning on including the i386 version of openssl097a in the 
> x86_64 version.
> Thus far, all of our tests have worked and we feel this will not have a 
> negative impact on any machine.  But we would still like to put this out 
> in testing.

we've been installing this package on our SL5 x86_64 systems for more
than two years now.

Maybe I could persuade you to include compat-readline43.i386 as well? 
The same reasons apply, and there's even less potential for problems.

Apparently, both will be included with TUV's 5.4 release (see BZ
#482800).

Cheers,
	Stephan

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