[Clfs-support] multilib openssl question

[Michael A. Peters]

I haven't booted my clfs install as unfortunately I did it on an a 
partition managed by LVM - I have to wait to get a new HD to create a 
non LVM partition (I do want to figure out how to do clfs with full LVM 
support - but I think keeping things simple initially is better) but I 
am using the CLFS partition via chroot to script the building of some of 
the utilities I know I'll need so that once I redo clfs (which I 
scripted and verified the scripts work) I can fairly quickly get the 
utilities I need working.

One of them is openssl - but reading the instructions at
http://cblfs.cross-lfs.org/index.php/OpenSSL

I have a question.

Since openssl does install a binary into /usr/bin - should the 32-bit 
and 64-bit binaries be renamed and the multiarch wrapper used?

Looking at my CentOS 5.2 system, it seems that both packages (32 and 64) 
have ownership of /usr/bin/openssl - but ldd on the binary reveals it is 
the 64-bit binary, I'm guessing with multilib packages in RHEL/CentOS 
that both own the same file in /usr/bin that the 64-bit version is the 
only one actually available, but I'm not positive how they handle it.

Anyway, should I rename the 32-bit binary before installing 64-bit 
version and use the wrapper, or is it OK for the 64-bit to overwrite the 
32-bit version?