[pkg-eucalyptus-maintainers] Bug#709475: euca2ools: euca-bundle-vol and euca-bundle-image to EC2 require ec2 certificate

[Charles Plessy]

Le Thu, May 23, 2013 at 10:21:51AM -0400, Scott Moser a écrit :
> Package: euca2ools
> Version: 2.1.3-1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
> Usertags: origin-ubuntu saucy ubuntu-patch
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
>    In order to upload an image to EC2 (either with euca-bundle-vol or
> euca-bundle-image), a X509 public key certificate is required.  In order
> to upload or bundle to Amazon, Amazon's certificate is required.
>    As AWS is the most popular target for usage of the euca2ools, Ubuntu
> has included the ec2 certificate in /usr/share/euca2ools/cert-ec2.pem and
> create a symlink to it from /etc/ssl/certs/cert-ec2.pem.
> 
>    This allows the user to be able to do:
>        euca-bundle-vol --ec2cert /usr/share/euca2ools/cert-ec2.pem
> without having to externally find Amazon's certificate.

Dear Scott and everybody,

I have just asked (again) on debian-devel if it would be possible to
host this certificate in another package.

    https://lists.debian.org/20130525122708.GA29404@falafel.plessy.net

Have a nice week-end,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan