libcrypto names

[McDougall, Marshall (FSH)]

Why do you say your rpm install would fail?  It should find the library
and carry on accordingly. Have you tried it?

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[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Chris St. Pierre
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 1:54 PM
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Subject: RE: libcrypto names

While that would functionally work, my RPM install would still fail --
unless I use --force, I suppose.  That's ugly, though, as we don't
have --force written into any of our scripts, crontabs, Cfengine
rules, etc., and don't want to.  I'm looking for a way to do this
"politely," I guess.

Chris St. Pierre
Unix Systems Administrator
Nebraska Wesleyan University

On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, McDougall, Marshall (FSH) wrote:

>If they are indeed the same package, just create a soft link to your
>currently installed lib but name it with the other naming standard ala:
>
> cd /lib
> ln -s ./libcrypto.so.0.9.7 ./libcrypto.so.4
>
>Regards, Marshall
>
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>Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 1:04 PM
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>Subject: libcrypto names
>
>I've got an RPM that requires libcrypto.so.0.9.7.  The problem is that
>RHEL's OpenSSL package provides libcrypto.so.4.  Some googling
>suggests that these are, in fact, the same library, just named
>differently: the .4 is an RHEL thing, while the .0.9.7 is the OpenSSL
>version.  (The RPM is packaged without a specific distro in mind.)
>How can I solve this dependency, preferably without installing a
>non-RHEL OpenSSL package?
>
>The only thing I can think of is to create an RPM package that just
>installs a symlink to libcrypto.so.4 under libcrypto.so.0.9.7, and
>reports to the RPM database that this package provides
>libcrypto.so.0.9.7.  This seems like overkill, and I'm also a total
>noob when it comes to making my own RPMs.  Other ideas?
>
>Chris St. Pierre
>Unix Systems Administrator
>Nebraska Wesleyan University
>
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