rawhide report: 20050422 changes

D. Stolte dstolte at arcor.de
Fri Apr 22 15:24:34 UTC 2005


Tomas Mraz wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 16:37 +0200, D. Stolte wrote:
> 
>>>openssl-0.9.7f-4
>>>----------------
>>>* Thu Apr 21 2005 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 0.9.7f-4
>>>- move certificates to _sysconfdir/pki/tls (#143392)
>>>- move CA directories to _sysconfdir/pki/CA
>>>- patch the CA script and the default config so it points to the
>>>  CA directories
>>
>>some questions:
>>- Why and who chose /etc/pki/tls as openssl dir? redhat has to be
>>special again?
> 
> See this discussion: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-
> maintainers/2005-April/msg00059.html

Ok, thanks. Makes sense.

>>- the patch to openssl.conf regarding the base ca dir ../../CA doesnt
>>  look correct. Isnt it ./../CA ?
> 
> No, the CA directory is not in the tls subdir because it presents a
> special functionality useful not only for TLS and it isn't part of non-
> rpm openssl installation.
> 

Yes, i understand why the CA dir is outside the tls dir but the relative
path in the openssl.cnf points to /etc/CA. I dont think that *this* is
intended.

/ds




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