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| author | gdt <gdt@pkgsrc.org> | 2020-03-27 13:42:53 +0000 |
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| committer | gdt <gdt@pkgsrc.org> | 2020-03-27 13:42:53 +0000 |
| commit | 8795a2a7bf95547de7daa0aec1ee2bbeb1d7742e (patch) | |
| tree | f417b876d3ea62cb761831400088cd0758b0d441 /security | |
| parent | 2e0dff3514f73ad2be3f9eabeb2dfe8da242fbd2 (diff) | |
| download | pkgsrc-8795a2a7bf95547de7daa0aec1ee2bbeb1d7742e.tar.gz | |
mozilla-rootcerts-openssl: Revise and extend DESCR
Explain the purpose, and then explain the mechanism and why it is
somewhat and very irregular in the pkgsrc and native cases.
Point to mozilla-rootcerts as providing certificates without
configuring them as trust anchors.
Diffstat (limited to 'security')
| -rw-r--r-- | security/mozilla-rootcerts-openssl/DESCR | 23 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/security/mozilla-rootcerts-openssl/DESCR b/security/mozilla-rootcerts-openssl/DESCR index 396f11f9ed0..1e9a30a2750 100644 --- a/security/mozilla-rootcerts-openssl/DESCR +++ b/security/mozilla-rootcerts-openssl/DESCR @@ -1,7 +1,18 @@ -This is a hack for managing the certificate files installed into -the OpenSSL certs directory by the mozilla-rootcerts package. +This package configures the Mozilla rootcerts bundle CAs as trust +anchors in OpenSSL, so that programs using OpenSSL will be able to use +them to validate SSL certificates. -For native OpenSSL it operates directly in /etc/ssl/certs (because it -has to) and not under the pkgsrc prefix, and even for pkgsrc OpenSSL -it still scribbles in $PREFIX/etc/ssl/certs where packages normally -shouldn't. Be advised. +For pkgsrc-provided OpenSSL, this package operates modifies +${PREFIX}/etc/ssl/certs as installed by another package. This is +somewhat irregular as packages should not modify content under etc. + +For native OpenSSL, it modifies the base system OpenSSL certificate +directory, e.g. /etc/openssl/certs or /etc/ssl/certs. This is +necessary to configure trust anchors for native OpenSSL, so that +progams in pkgsrc can use these CA certs in validation. Modification +of /etc is very irregular as pkgsrc should not write anything outside +of ${PREFIX}. + +See also the mozilla-rootcerts package (which this one depends on) for +placing the Mozilla CA list in the filesystem but not configuring it +into OpenSSL.
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