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[pkgsrc/trunk]: pkgsrc/security/ca-certificates security/ca-certifcates: Extn...



details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/pkgsrc/rev/c7d311e3d00e
branches:  trunk
changeset: 456126:c7d311e3d00e
user:      gdt <gdt%pkgsrc.org@localhost>
date:      Tue Jul 20 12:59:06 2021 +0000

description:
security/ca-certifcates: Extned DESCR

Note that this package is irregular because it modifies configuration
outside of pkgsrc.

Add a see-also for mozilla-rootcerts{,-openssl}.

diffstat:

 security/ca-certificates/DESCR |  7 ++++++-
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diffs (17 lines):

diff -r b5db0f043650 -r c7d311e3d00e security/ca-certificates/DESCR
--- a/security/ca-certificates/DESCR    Tue Jul 20 12:52:04 2021 +0000
+++ b/security/ca-certificates/DESCR    Tue Jul 20 12:59:06 2021 +0000
@@ -1,7 +1,12 @@
 This package provides the certificates distributed by the Mozilla
 Project and will, by default, install certificates trusted by the
-Mozilla Project in the system certificate store.
+Mozilla Project in the system OpenSSL certificate store.  Modification
+of system configuration files is very irregular as pkgsrc should not
+write anything outside of ${PREFIX}.
 
 The sysadmin can configure the list of trusted certificates and also
 add local certificates as needed by editing ca-certificates.conf and
 re-running update-ca-certificates.
+
+See also the mozilla-rootcerts and mozilla-rootcerts-openssl packages
+for an alternative approach.



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