[arch-general] The 284 files in /etc/ssl/certs? There must be a purpose...

[Aaron Griffin]

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:44 PM, David C. Rankin
<drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
> David C. Rankin wrote:
>> Listmates,
>>
>>       One thing I noticed when generating dovecot certs was the significant number
>> of files in /etc/ssl/certs. What is the reason for/background of Arch's
>> gathering of so many cert files, and is there some specific way we should make
>> use of them? Are they just there for convenience? Are they current?
>>
>
> A bit more info:
>
>        The reason I asked is that I'm not familiar with the certs Arch has collected
> there, but I do deal with self-signed certificates a bit. If what's in the
> /etc/ssl/certs directory will help me build a better certificate chain, I would
> love to know about it.

I have a feeling these are all from the ca-certificates package, which
is from Debian:
http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/ca-certificates.html