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[Ben Harper <ben.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/03/2013 06:10 PM, Ben Harper wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> We received a bug that the IUS openssl10 package will break sshd after 
> upgrading to el 6.5[0]. I was able to recreate this issue and resolve 
> it by switching to stock openssl[1].  With the el 6.5 release, current 
> version of openssl is now stock[2].  Seeing that IUS only packages 
> newer version of software than stock el, we will begin the process to 
> EOL openssl10.
>
> Tonight (December 3rd 2013), we will be removing the openssl10 
> packages from the stable repos and they will be available in the 
> archive repos for the time being.  If you have built any software off 
> the openssl10-devel packages, it is recommended that they get rebuilt 
> with the el 6.5 stock openssl.
>
> Sorry for the short notice, but we are wanted to prevent any 
> additional servers from installing openssl10.
>
>
> Ben Harper
> OS Deployment Services, RPMDEV
> Rackspace Hosting & IUS Community
>
>
> [0] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ius/+bug/1034961/comments/58
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ius/+bug/1034961/comments/60
> [2] 
> https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html-single/6.5_Technical_Notes/index.html#openssl

In some cases using the yum replace method will not work.  I was able to 
switch from openssl10 to stock openssl using yum shell [3].

Ben Harper
OS Deployment Services, RPMDEV
Rackspace Hosting & IUS Community