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authorThijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>2013-05-08 15:53:36 +0200
committerThijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>2013-05-08 15:53:36 +0200
commit47d0648629d665860ba96ca68666cce7fc124de2 (patch)
tree22f8637378bda1a967dfefd05b22cff7a440a722
parentbd329f546a83bed90ee00a7cae2d53cb2f68304a (diff)
downloadca-certificates-47d0648629d665860ba96ca68666cce7fc124de2.tar.gz
Clean up man page (LP#: 850997).
-rw-r--r--debian/changelog1
-rw-r--r--sbin/update-ca-certificates.814
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index c2a9fcb..5d33fd5 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ ca-certificates (20130508) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* Remove obsolete SPI CA certiticate expired in 2007; current
SPI CA which expires in 2018 remains.
* Checked for policy 3.9.4, no changes needed.
+ * Clean up man page (LP#: 850997).
-- Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org> Wed, 08 May 2013 15:24:16 +0200
diff --git a/sbin/update-ca-certificates.8 b/sbin/update-ca-certificates.8
index 987d250..51b2595 100644
--- a/sbin/update-ca-certificates.8
+++ b/sbin/update-ca-certificates.8
@@ -23,8 +23,7 @@ update-ca-certificates \- update /etc/ssl/certs and certificates.crt
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
.B update-ca-certificates
-commands.
-This manual page was written for the Debian distribution.
+command.
.PP
\fBupdate-ca-certificates\fP is a program that updates the directory
/etc/ssl/certs to hold SSL certificates and generates certificates.crt,
@@ -34,10 +33,11 @@ It reads the file /etc/ca-certificates.conf. Each line gives a pathname of
a CA certificate under /usr/share/ca-certificates that should be trusted.
Lines that begin with "#" are comment lines and thus ignored.
Lines that begin with "!" are deselected, causing the deactivation of the CA
-certificate in question.
+certificate in question. Certificates must have a .crt extension in order to
+be included by update-ca-certificates.
.PP
-Furthermore all certificates found below /usr/local/share/ca-certificates
-are also included as implicitly trusted.
+Furthermore all certificates with a .crt extension found below
+/usr/local/share/ca-certificates are also included as implicitly trusted.
.PP
Before terminating, \fBupdate-ca-certificates\fP invokes
\fBrun-parts\fP on /etc/ca-certificates/update.d and calls each hook with
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ Fresh updates. Remove symlinks in /etc/ssl/certs directory.
A configuration file.
.TP
.I /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
-A single-file version of CA certificates. This hold
+A single-file version of CA certificates. This holds
all CA certificates that you activated in /etc/ca-certificates.conf.
.TP
.I /usr/share/ca-certificates
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ Directory of CA certificates.
.I /usr/local/share/ca-certificates
Directory of local CA certificates (with .crt extension).
.SH SEE ALSO
-.BR c_rehash (1),
+.BR c_rehash (1)
.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>,
for the Debian project (but may be used by others).