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: > "Keep your stick on the ice.." > - Red Green > We are looking into this. Thanks for the report .