Hi,

I dealt with this issue. I prepared a package with removed certificates, should 
be ready in the repository for the next OpenIndiana release.

Cheers,

Adam

On Nov 2, 2012, at 11:19 PM, Paul B. Henson <[email protected]> wrote:

> illumos-gate currently includes root CA certificates, inherited from 
> opensolaris. No one has been maintaining them, and the collection is 
> currently stale to at least some degree. After some discussion, it seemed the 
> best approach was to remove the certificates from illumos-gate and have 
> distributions determine their own certificate policy and bundle them as 
> deemed appropriate.
> 
> It was decided this would be a flag day, as anything depending on the 
> illumos-gate provided certificates might break if replacement ones weren't 
> installed at the same time.
> 
> There's a webrev of the intended changeset available at:
> 
>       http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/tmp/3310-webrev/
> 
> There are two scenarios to consider. The first are your users upgrading via 
> pkg. For OS suplied packages, presumably there should be no noticeable impact 
> in this scenario, as they would be released in synchronization, with whatever 
> mechanism you decide upon to replace the illumos-gate provided certificates 
> being delivered at the same time as the changes removing them. Any locally 
> compiled packages or other uses of the certificates could potentially be 
> impacted if you do not deliver the replacements in the same spot, and 
> presumably there would be a release note in that case.
> 
> The other scenario are people running OI and updating via onu. Those users 
> should (hopefully) be paying attention to flag day announcements. We plan to 
> create a tarball of the certificates that will be removed and make it 
> available so they could be temporarily replaced if necessary for a particular 
> user pending a longer-term solution for their specific use case.
> 
> Are there any concerns/questions about this?
> 
> Thanks...
> 
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