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Subject: =?utf-8?B?4oCYbnNzLWNlcnRz4oCZ?= missing in the installation image
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 14:20:52 +0100
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To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
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Hi,

Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> skribis:

> Wait, what about this:
>
>> - I was surprised to see that from the install image, curl, git, etc. wo=
uld fail
>>   with an SSL error.  It's annoying because I really needed to get my co=
nfig.scm
>>   from an online source.
>>=20
>>   I only briefly investigated: the environment has
>>=20
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> SSL_CERT_DIR=3D/etc/ssl/certs
>> SSL_CERT_FILE=3D/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>=20
>>   but the install image only has a /etc/ssl file.
>
> Is this broken or intentional?  Can you point me at where this is defined?

=E2=80=98nss-certs=E2=80=99 is intentionally not in %base-packages nor in t=
he
installation image.  The rationale is that the package contains X.509
certificates bundled together by Mozilla and when we discussed it there
was a rough consensus that it should be the user=E2=80=99s decision to trust
these.  One could object that IceCat comes with its own copy of these
certificates anyway=E2=80=A6

Someone following the normal installation procedure shouldn=E2=80=99t need =
those
certificates though.  WDYT?

Ludo=E2=80=99.