[Bug 297301] [NEW PORT] devel/mkcert: simple tool for making locally-trusted development certificates
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:57:18 UTC
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=297301
Bug ID: 297301
Summary: [NEW PORT] devel/mkcert: simple tool for making
locally-trusted development certificates
Product: Ports & Packages
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any
URL: https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert
OS: Any
Status: New
Severity: Affects Only Me
Priority: ---
Component: Individual Port(s)
Assignee: ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Reporter: owlandrews@protonmail.com
Created attachment 273490
--> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=273490&action=edit
Patch to add devel/mkcert v 1.4.4
Patch to add devel/mkcert v1.4.4
mkcert is a simple tool for making locally-trusted development certificates. It
requires no configuration.
Using certificates from real certificate authorities (CAs) for development can
be dangerous or impossible (for hosts like example.test, localhost or
127.0.0.1),
but self-signed certificates cause trust errors. Managing your own CA is the
best solution, but usually involves arcane commands, specialized knowledge and
manual steps.
mkcert automatically creates and installs a local CA in the system root store,
and generates locally-trusted certificates.
mkcert does not automatically configure servers to use the certificates,
though, that's up to you.
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One of the top installed homebrew packages, support for FreeBSD is provided by
this (open) PR: https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert/pull/552, I'm not sure if
best practice is to to build from the fork, use remote patch files or just keep
the local implementation in the port (as I hope the PR will eventually get
merged). Thanks
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