RE: package (tinyca2) not longer present in F15, what to do about it?

2011-08-10 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 20:30 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 11:10 +0200, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: > > Specially with any package that is somehow related to security it > > would be comforting to be assured that at least some people take the > > trouble to have a look at it. The fact th

RE: package (tinyca2) not longer present in F15, what to do about it?

2011-08-10 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 11:10 +0200, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: > Specially with any package that is somehow related to security it > would be comforting to be assured that at least some people take the > trouble to have a look at it. The fact that without any changes it > still works after all thes

RE: package (tinyca2) not longer present in F15, what to do about it?

2011-08-10 Thread J.Witvliet
-Original Message- From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Chris Adams Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 3:53 PM To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: package (tinyca2) not longer present in F15, what to do about it

Re: package (tinyca2) not longer present in F15, what to do about it?

2011-08-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 9 Aug 2011 10:55:08 -0500 Chris Adams wrote: > I understand being dropped from Fedora for no package maintainer. I was > responding to the "no upstream in 5 years == not safe" comment. Clearly fedora needs to be restricted only to packages that are riddled with bugs and need to be consta

Re: package (tinyca2) not longer present in F15, what to do about it?

2011-08-09 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Patrick O'Callaghan said: > On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 08:53 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > > Once upon a time, Stephen Gallagher said: > > > I should note, however, that tinyca2 development appears dead upstream. > > > It last saw a release on July 25, 2006! So chances are good that it

Re: package (tinyca2) not longer present in F15, what to do about it?

2011-08-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 08:53 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Stephen Gallagher said: > > I should note, however, that tinyca2 development appears dead upstream. > > It last saw a release on July 25, 2006! So chances are good that it's no > > longer safe for inclusion in Fedora. > > W

Re: package (tinyca2) not longer present in F15, what to do about it?

2011-08-09 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Stephen Gallagher said: > I find it very difficult to believe that at no time in the last five > years that no security vulnerabilities could have been identified in a > Certificate Authority. Please stop unfounded fearmongering. All TinyCA does is call out to OpenSSL command l

Re: package (tinyca2) not longer present in F15, what to do about it?

2011-08-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:40:44 -0400 Stephen Gallagher wrote: > I find it very difficult to believe that at no time in the last five > years that no security vulnerabilities could have been identified in a > Certificate Authority. But what does that have to do with a gui interface tool that probabl

Re: package (tinyca2) not longer present in F15, what to do about it?

2011-08-09 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 08:42 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 08:10:39 -0400 > Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > > I should note, however, that tinyca2 development appears dead upstream. > > It last saw a release on July 25, 2006! So chances are good that it's no > > longer safe for inclu

Re: package (tinyca2) not longer present in F15, what to do about it?

2011-08-09 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Stephen Gallagher said: > I should note, however, that tinyca2 development appears dead upstream. > It last saw a release on July 25, 2006! So chances are good that it's no > longer safe for inclusion in Fedora. Why does "long time since last release" mean "no longer safe"? Pro

Re: Re: package (tinyca2) not longer present in F15, what to do about it?

2011-08-09 Thread fernando
Hi there, >> I should note, however, that tinyca2 development appears dead upstream. >> It last saw a release on July 25, 2006! So chances are good that it's no >> longer safe for inclusion in Fedora. > >Or maybe it just does a job, does it well, and needs no frenetic >change for the sake of chang

Re: package (tinyca2) not longer present in F15, what to do about it?

2011-08-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 08:10:39 -0400 Stephen Gallagher wrote: > I should note, however, that tinyca2 development appears dead upstream. > It last saw a release on July 25, 2006! So chances are good that it's no > longer safe for inclusion in Fedora. Or maybe it just does a job, does it well, and ne

RE: package (tinyca2) not longer present in F15, what to do about it?

2011-08-09 Thread Stephen Gallagher
age (tinyca2) not longer present in F15, what to do about it? > > For years before and up to F14 Fedora was contained package 'tinyca2' > (TinyCA is a graphical tool to manage a small Certification Authority, > program was in group Applications/Internet). This package is mis

Re: package (tinyca2) not longer present in F15, what to do about it?

2011-08-09 Thread Patrick Lists
On 08/08/2011 10:42 PM, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: [smip] > If it is just some self-signed certificates, you can ise the openssl > commandline tools > If you are doing serious things with certificates, i would recommend ejbca > > It is distro agnostic with a web interface (java engine) Similar t

RE: package (tinyca2) not longer present in F15, what to do about it?

2011-08-08 Thread J.Witvliet
-Original Message- From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Frantisek Hanzlik Sent: maandag 1 augustus 2011 03:52 To: Fedora users Subject: package (tinyca2) not longer present in F15, what to do about it? For years before

Re: package (tinyca2) not longer present in F15, what to do about it?

2011-07-31 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 03:51:38 +0200, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: > > I was using it for years and it's IMO usefull program for anyone who > works with certificates. For now I simple build this package for F15 > from its F14 SRPMS, but it would be better when this package was in Fedora > distro

package (tinyca2) not longer present in F15, what to do about it?

2011-07-31 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
For years before and up to F14 Fedora was contained package 'tinyca2' (TinyCA is a graphical tool to manage a small Certification Authority, program was in group Applications/Internet). This package is missing in F15, Technical Notes not mention nothing about this: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-