diff --git a/dev-R/openssl/Manifest b/dev-R/openssl/Manifest
index c4e56a7a8a..49a30aafff 100644
--- a/dev-R/openssl/Manifest
+++ b/dev-R/openssl/Manifest
@@ -1 +1 @@
-DIST openssl_1.4.4.tar.gz 1311285 BLAKE2B 388ab911273ef27ea2529f23ac8491bb25d0366b9a162927ef4d7e027cddbe6e0b85ffec307f82034165bca0461ae4a499eaa794414b6ee0355d7d2c1ee848ab SHA512 bc87d2760256d059b461527e822f1abe4bd808ca8062797ecd2d3e9c1bd33698cfac73693d0311a4982e7f7759927b7b0eb11bd6a84f3dde41a80caf74609dd9
+DIST openssl_1.4.5.tar.gz 1311351 BLAKE2B ea474c31471fbe5bef52c7980669cb928901758bc8774d22a431f1786bbc1958eeb0823c2ab1509dec1432fc7d693ead73184b7e9392e4d446b88db50d97bba2 SHA512 8811a02a553e217931f28b2efb8e8051762e4aad3b9b9e32ab9b879fe1752d295ee05c5e2847c1671fc860575489d7ea53f7b5c9665f3dc7f9cb8942ad404085
diff --git a/dev-R/openssl/metadata.xml b/dev-R/openssl/metadata.xml
index 586d4fd244..3b2abc19b1 100644
--- a/dev-R/openssl/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-R/openssl/metadata.xml
@@ -21,4 +21,14 @@
 		number generator, and 'bignum' math methods for manually
 		performing crypto calculations on large multibyte integers.
 	</longdescription>
+	<upstream>
+		<bugs-to>https://github.com/jeroen/openssl/issues</bugs-to>
+		<doc lang="en">https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/openssl/openssl.pdf</doc>
+		<changelog>https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/openssl/NEWS</changelog>
+		<maintainer>
+			<name>Jeroen Ooms</name>
+			<email>jeroen@berkeley.edu</email>
+		</maintainer>
+		<remote-id type="github">jeroen/openssl</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
 </pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-R/openssl/openssl-1.4.4.ebuild b/dev-R/openssl/openssl-1.4.5.ebuild
similarity index 76%
rename from dev-R/openssl/openssl-1.4.4.ebuild
rename to dev-R/openssl/openssl-1.4.5.ebuild
index e1b2526135..b2f5d976f2 100644
--- a/dev-R/openssl/openssl-1.4.4.ebuild
+++ b/dev-R/openssl/openssl-1.4.5.ebuild
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 EAPI=7
 
-inherit R-packages
+inherit R-packages toolchain-funcs
 
 DESCRIPTION='Toolkit for Encryption, Signatures and certificates based on openssl'
 KEYWORDS="~amd64"
@@ -14,3 +14,8 @@ RDEPEND="
 	${DEPEND}
 	dev-libs/openssl
 "
+
+src_prepare() {
+	tc-export AR
+	R-packages_src_prepare
+}