On Wed, 10 Aug 2016, Denice wrote:

> I'm not sure if this has been reported yet (I could not find it in a
> quick search - sorry if I missed it), but if not mentioned yet, then you
> will want to be aware of it.
>
> On May 20th these 4 RPMs showed up in the errata tree, with both .sl6
> and .el6 naming:
>
> $ ls -tlr openssl-1.0.1e-48.*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root May 20 07:46 openssl-1.0.1e-48.sl6_8.1.i686.rpm
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root May 20 07:49 openssl-1.0.1e-48.sl6_8.1.x86_64.rpm
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root May 20 12:20 openssl-1.0.1e-48.el6_8.1.x86_64.rpm
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root May 20 12:21 openssl-1.0.1e-48.el6_8.1.i686.rpm
>
> On an SL 6.7 server you might have updated openssl on or after May 20.
> This will result in your node have openssl-1.0.1e-48.sl6_8.1.x86_64
> installed -- note the .sl6 in the release number.
>
> Then at a later date you may have updated the server to SL 6.8.
>
> In the SL 6.8 errata tree only openssl-*-1.0.1e-48.el6_8.1.*.rpm
> exists -- note the .el6 in the release number
>
> The upshot of this is    openssl-1.0.1e-48.sl6_8.1 is technically
> at a higher version than openssl-1.0.1e-48.el6_8.1 because of the
> alphabetic ordering.
>
> Now if you decide to install openssl.i686 or openssl-devel on your newly
> updated 6.8 node then you will have a problem:
>
> # rpm -q openssl.x86_64
> openssl-1.0.1e-48.sl6_8.1.x86_64
>
> # yum install openssl.i686
> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit, security
> Setting up Install Process
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package openssl.i686 0:1.0.1e-48.el6_8.1 will be installed
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error:  Multilib version problems found. This often means that the root
>        cause is something else and multilib version checking is just
>        pointing out that there is a problem...
>
> yum cannot find an i686 matching version of the openssl RPM in the SL
> 6.8 errata tree.
>
> So in this case the work-around is to grab the openssl.i686 0:1.0.1e-48.sl6_8.1
> version from the SL 6.7 updates tree to install it locally:
>
> # yum localinstall openssl-1.0.1e-48.sl6_8.1.i686.rpm
> ...
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Dependencies Resolved
> ...
> Running Transaction
>   Installing : openssl-1.0.1e-48.sl6_8.1.i686
>   Verifying  : openssl-1.0.1e-48.sl6_8.1.i686
>
> Installed:
>   openssl.i686 0:1.0.1e-48.sl6_8.1
>
> cheers, etc.
> -- 
> deatrich @ triumf.ca, Science/ATLAS         PH: +1 604-222-7665
> <*> This moment's fortune cookie:
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>         - Red Green
>

We are looking into this.

Thanks for the report .