Re: openssl updates

[Michal Jaegermann <michal harddata com>]

On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 10:48:32PM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 22:50 -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> 
> > If you have already installed
> > both (multilib situation) then you have to do both updates in
> > one transaction.
> 
> The i686 package is already installed (although I don't think anything
> is actually using it). If I try to remove it, that's rejected based on a
> list of dependencies longer than my arm.

That would mean that something is using it. :-)  Possibly in
an indirect way.

> 
> If I try to build an i686 package on the x86_64 system I get:
> 
> # rpmbuild --rebuild --target=i686 openssl-0.9.7f-7.10.3mj.src.rpm
> [snip]
> /usr/bin/ld: warning: i386 architecture of input file
> `libcrypto.a(krb5_asn.o)' is incompatible with i386:x86-64 output

Building i686 on x86_64 is a bit more involved than that.  Jeff
already mentioned 'mock'. If you have an access to a suitable "86"
installation rebuilding there those "missing" packages may be
a simpler option.

   Michal