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Akemi Yagi <[log in to unmask]>
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Akemi Yagi <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:52:14 -0700
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On 10/20/07, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Connie, Troy,
>
> this is what rsync told me it fetched:
>
>    x86_64/updates/security/openssl-0.9.8b-8.3.2.x86_64.rpm
>    x86_64/updates/security/openssl-0.9.8b-8.3.el5.2.i686.rpm
>    x86_64/updates/security/openssl-devel-0.9.8b-8.3.2.x86_64.rpm
>    x86_64/updates/security/openssl-devel-0.9.8b-8.3.el5.2.i386.rpm
>    x86_64/updates/security/openssl-perl-0.9.8b-8.3.2.x86_64.rpm
>
> Seems like the x86_64 packages were built without %dist defined.
>
> I guess installing these would prevent future updates (with %dist=el5)
> from working.
>
> Cheers,
>         Stephan

I recently learned that redhat started using a different naming method
for %dist and openssl is one of them.

openssl-0.9.8b-8.3.el5_0.2.src.rpm

Note the .el5_0.2 there.  I saw CentOS released this rpm:

openssl-0.9.8b-8.3.el5_0.2.x86_64

I'm wondering how SL would deal with this issue.

Akemi

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