SSL Certificates in base

Andrea Venturoli ml at netfence.it
Wed Feb 24 15:51:20 UTC 2021


On 2/24/21 4:20 PM, Mike Clarke wrote:
> On Wednesday, 24 February 2021 08:57:58 GMT Andrea Venturoli wrote:
>> In the past, I've always installed security/ca_root_nss to let SSL work,
>> as there were no CA certificates in base.
>> 12.2 (and possibly older 12.x, I don't know) already provide several
>> certificates in /usr/share/certs/trusted.
>>
>> How are we expected to deal with this?
>> Is security/ca_root_nss still needed/suggested?
> 
> Some packages still require it

I know.
What confuses me is: will those packages get any cert from
/usr/share/certs/trusted or /usr/local/share/certs or what it may 
become, if ca_root_nss is installed?
Will installing ca_root_nss override the base certs as a whole?
Does anything that uses certs get the union of the two?

  bye & Thanks
	av.


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