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Re: new certificate stuff
On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 10:53:58PM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
> Currently, if /etc/openssl/certs.conf doesn't exist, `certctl rehash'
> (the crux of `postinstall fix opensslcerts') will print an error
> message and then exit with status 0. This combination is a bug --
> need to think a bit about it, but probably better to exit nonzero than
> to suppress the error message.
Sounds good to me. Make the error message point at some docs and ask
the user to
- deinstall mozilla-rootcerts
- manually copy /etc/openssl/certs.conf over
or
- add a manual certs.conf and keep using their old certificate setup.
and then re-run postinstall.
> So if you unpack new _non-etc_ sets, `postinstall fix' won't
> clobber your /etc/openssl/certs directory.
This is good.
Martin
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