Ben Aveling via FreeIPA-users wrote:
> The man page for ipa-client-install has a list of files that are 
> replaced/created/updated.
> 
> It's not completely up to date.
> 
> I'm sure if it's worth the effort of keeping it up to date or not. 
> 
> On the one hand, it's probably a bit of work to get it up to date and keep it 
> up to date.
> 
> On the other hand, If it were up to date, it could be useful for people who 
> want to be able to do a selective backup, prior to installing, or just want 
> to see what changes. 
> 
> If we don't want to keep it up to date, we should probably explain what the 
> criteria for including files in the list is, while being clear that this 
> isn't the full list.
> 
> If we do want to bring it up to date, it should possibly also include :
> 
> Files always created (replacing existing content):
> 
> - /etc/pki/ca-trust/source/ipa.p11-kit
> 
> Files updated, existing content is maintained:
> 
> - /etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/java/cacerts 
> 
> Does IPA depend on the entries that it adds to cacerts? Or does it just put 
> them there in case some other application needs them?

Both are related to configuring system-wide trust. The first file is
created by IPA and should be included in the list. The second is a
side-effect of running update-ca-trust and it's arguable whether it
should be or not (as re-running the command will generate it).

I opened https://pagure.io/freeipa/issue/8424

thanks for the report

rob
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