Bug 24079 - openssl in updates area built for wrong arch
Summary: openssl in updates area built for wrong arch
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: openssl
Version: 6.2
Hardware: sparc
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nalin Dahyabhai
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-01-15 23:44 UTC by Habig, Alec
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2003-01-09 22:32:25 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2001:051 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE : Updated openssl packages available 2001-04-17 04:00:00 UTC

Description Habig, Alec 2001-01-15 23:44:48 UTC
The openssl rpm (openssl-0.9.5a-2.6.x) in the sparc 6.X updates area is
built for "SPARC32PLUS, V8+ Required."  Thus, it won't run on older sparc
systems, which the rest of the distro is compiled for.  A comparison:

% file /usr/bin/openssl
/usr/bin/openssl: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, SPARC32PLUS, V8+ Required,
version 1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

% file /bin/gzip
/bin/gzip: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, SPARC, version 1, dynamically linked
uses shared libs), stripped

Of course, I tried to rebuild the SRPM on my old sparc under RH 6.1, and it
"ar" dump core, so perhaps there's a good reason for this choice of
architecture - although the SuSe openssl-0.9.6 rpm works fine.

Comment 1 Need Real Name 2001-01-25 06:58:19 UTC
This bug thoroughly breaks both old and new versions of up2date as well.

Comment 2 osi 2001-02-05 07:43:09 UTC
Recompiling the SRPM on RH 6.2 (sun4c) works fine, so this looks like
an accidental mistake.  Ssh depends on openssl, so the upgrade breaks ssh.

Comment 3 Need Real Name 2001-02-10 21:17:56 UTC
Oops, even pine refuses to work! What is the procedure? Will RedHat publish a
new rpm?


Comment 4 Need Real Name 2001-02-21 12:02:05 UTC
I have done a rebuild on my Sparc of the src-rpm and now the package works fine
for me. For the lazey ones I have placed these new RPMs on:

http://home.sara.nl/~marco/rpm/sparc/

Good luck!

Marco


Comment 5 Need Real Name 2001-06-24 19:06:25 UTC
This issue has been listed as 'NEW' since January, and apparently no revised
package has been issued despite the clear problem of only needing RH to
re-compile for the proper machine and officially issue a new package.

A number of other Sparc bug issues remain hanging.

Has RH dropped support of Sparc altogether?

Comment 6 Nalin Dahyabhai 2001-07-03 18:49:55 UTC
There is a pending errata release for OpenSSL which fixes various security-
related issues, and the fix for this bug is bundled with it.


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