what's the story with openssl?

[David Figuera]

On Sun, 28 Dec 2014 10:43:19 -0800
David Benfell <benfell at parts-unknown.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> This seems like it should be an unbelievably stupid question. But I
> guess FreeBSD's idea of sane defaults for openssl do not accord with
> my idea of sane defaults for openssl.
> 
> I have tried the security/ca_root_nss port now both with and without
> the option to create the link in /etc. It doesn't help.
> 
> Why am I having to specify --ca-certificate
> /usr/local/share/certs/ca-root-nss.crt to make wget work? What do I
> have to do to make this not necessary--and *stay* not necessary?

If after having selected the option, it doesn't create the symlink for you, try contacting the port maintainer.