On Tue, 21 Feb 2017, Al Russell wrote:

> I have been unable to get the SL6 openssl update to 8.4 that was announced in 
> today's Scientific-Linux-Errata. When I check the SL6 sl-security repository 
> all I find is the openssl-1.0.1e-48.el6_8.3.i686.rpm family. Is there a 
> problem or am I missing something?

I see openssl-1.0.1.el6_8.4.i686.rpm
but since I have openssl-1.0.1.sl6_8.3.i686 installed,
the 8.4 version is not seen as newer (sl... > el...).

Worse, having managed to install the 8.4 (with
    yum downgrade openssl*1.0.1e-48.el6_8.4
)
yum wants to "upgrade" me back to 8.3 :-(