Bug#394598: exim4-daemon-heavy: Upgrade breaks TLS

[Marc Haber]

On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 02:25:18PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 08:39:22PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 10:05:05PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> > > This is a serious upgrade-from-sarge issue that could break things.
> > 
> > Agreed. I have committed a patch to exim4-base.postinst that will
> > check file(1)'s output and zap the file if it is classified as
> > application/octet-stream.
> 
> Will it be recreated automatically then?  If so, then that sounds good.

As with a fresh install, next STARTTLS command will recreate the file.
This might be subject to entropy starvation, but that's not a new
issue, and the removal of RSA_EXPORT might fix it.

Greetings
Marc


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