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Subject: Re: [PATCHES] profiles: Produce a single-file CA certificate bundle
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Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> Fedora's system for handling CA certificates seems to be vastly more
> sophisticated than Debian's.  All of the single-file bundles are
> considered "legacy", and Fedora is able to produce multiple bundles
> containing certs trusted for different purposes.
>
> Doing this job properly will require more research, but it seems to me
> that we should be looking to Fedora for guidance:
>
>   http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/ca-certificates.git
>   http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/openssl.git
>   http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/gnutls.git

Indeed, this looks like a useful source of inspiration.

> Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> writes:
>> If we decide to remove certificates, this should not only be done in the
>> aggregation phase into one file. They should be removed at the end of the
>> nss-certs build, so that also the single certificate files will disappea=
r.
>> What is left over can be collected into one file as is done now.
>
> Agreed.  For now, I've pushed my recently proposed commits (to support
> certificate stores in profiles) along with changes to our 'nss-certs'
> package to only install certificates that are annotated with a non-empty
> "openssl-trust=3D" comment by our 'certdata2pem.py' (from Fedora).

Good.

BTW, since the =E2=80=98x509-certificates=E2=80=99 is now gone, I think we =
should add
=E2=80=98nss-certs=E2=80=99 to =E2=80=98%base-packages=E2=80=99 to get that=
 works-out-of-the-box
property.

WDYT?

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.