On Tuesday 21 August 2007, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 04:12:32PM +0200, Natanael Copa wrote:
> > I use the gentoo framework to build binary packages. I noticed that most
> > packages creates the ssl certificate during src_install(). This makes
> > all binary packages contain the ssl certs which is a security threat.
>
> I filed bug #174759 to the security team back in April on this issue,
> and then fixed the openldap package where I had originally found it.
>
> Anybody using binpkgs obtained from a public repository that contain SSL
> certs should ensure that they regenerate the SSL certs on each machine.
>
> For packages, there are two possible fixes:
> 1. Move the docert call into pkg_postinst.

there it is
-mike

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