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From: ng0 <ng0@libertad.pw>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: tlsdate: Use the system provided certificate store.
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 23:40:34 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877f7bwbnx.fsf@wasp.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a8c7756a.fsf@gnu.org>

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hello!
>
> ng0 <ng0@libertad.pw> skribis:
>
>> * gnu/packages/ntp.scm (tlsdate)[arguments]: Configure with unprivileged user and group.
>> [arguments]: Build with the system provided certificates in a new phase.
>
> [...]
>
>> +     '(#:configure-flags '("--with-unpriv-user=tlsdate"
>> +                           "--with-unpriv-group=tlsdate")
>
> Why?  I think the default is nobody/nogroup, which is fine no?

I'm not sure if this is still fine when tlsdated is run. But I'll
figure out soon.

>> +       #:phases (modify-phases %standard-phases
>> +                  (add-after 'unpack 'set-cert-path
>> +                    ;; Use the system certificate store, not the
>> +                    ;; application bundled certificates.
>> +                    (lambda _
>> +                      (substitute* "Makefile.am"
>> +                        (("$(sysconfdir)/tlsdate/ca-roots/tlsdate-ca-roots.conf")
>> +                         "/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt"))))
>
> I sympathize with this but this may or may not work on foreign distros.
> Still, it’s probably better (this ‘tlsdata-ca-roots.conf’ file seems to
> be a 4-year old copy from Mozilla’s NSS).
>
> WDYT?
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
>

I don't really like the current way to setenv everything, but is
this something we could do here to keep other distros happy? if
so, what's a good suggestion how to apply this?

-- 
♥Ⓐ  ng0  | ng0.chaosnet.org

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-07 23:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-05 18:20 (unknown), ng0
2016-12-05 18:20 ` [PATCH 1/2] gnu: tlsdate: Use the system provided certificate store ng0
2016-12-07 22:19   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-12-07 23:40     ` ng0 [this message]
2016-12-08  9:35       ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-18 20:31         ` ng0
2017-01-20 13:31           ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-12-05 18:20 ` [PATCH 2/2] services: Add tlsdate-service ng0
2016-12-05 18:23   ` ng0
2016-12-05 18:30     ` v2 tlsdate-service ng0
2016-12-05 18:31       ` [PATCH 1/2] gnu: tlsdate: Use the system provided certificate store ng0
2016-12-05 18:31       ` [PATCH 2/2] services: Add tlsdate-service ng0
2016-12-07  7:18         ` Chris Marusich
2016-12-07 12:04           ` ng0
2016-12-09  6:29             ` Chris Marusich

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