On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > > There are two scripts used now: mkblfsca.sh and mkcert.pl. They total > 125 lines. > > I'm not sure how to present this. I could put the scripts in a tarball, > but that seems like overkill for about 3K of scripts. >
That's not too long, I think having it as part of the book sounds like a good thing. > > My inclination is to just put the scripts in the book and tell the user > to place them in /root, fetch the certdata, and run the scripts. We > might want to do an install of of the directory /etc/ssl/certs to make > sure it exists. > > Placing the scripts in /root is a bit unusual, but really, only root > should be touching CA Certificates. > From your description I get the idea that these scripts are meant as a one-shot setup of the certificates after calling a wget for the certdata.txt. If I haven't misinterpreted then there really isn't a better spot for these and /root is probably a good place to stash them for the time being. If these scripts were capable of updating the certificates then maybe /usr/sbin would be a sane location. Jonathan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
