Randy McMurchy wrote:
> I suppose it looks as though when I questioned this idea, I acted
> hesitant to DJ's idea. Seeing how Bruce gave me the "big picture",
> when I only needed to know what a "Distro specific CA certificate"
> was, means I missed entirely on my message to DJ.
>
> What I was getting at is the stuff about "Distro Specific", which
> still to me isn't defined, so I questioned it without mentioning in
> my initial reply that it was the OpenSSL suggestion that started me
> in the direction of confusion.
>   
Yes.  I hadn't realized that OpenSSL has stopped shipping a populated 
certs file (still haven't looked, but I'll take your word for it).  
'Distro specific' was a bad choice of words, though it was used in the 
original discussion.  We need to provide some sort of system wide CA 
store.  Currently, I know of only six packages in BLFS that will take 
advantage of it (but I believe there are more, I just haven't looked 
closely yet), and only two, openssl and gnome-keyring, that are not 
fully configured without providing root CAs (Current JDK and Mozilla 
products contain their own).

> And knowing that just in the last few days when DJ made comments
> that my Glib2 update commit required a package that my logs don't
> show is required, and I've since asked him twice with no reply, I
> do question things a bit more.
>   
And yes.  I finally had the time to verify, and it came down to a bad 
assumption.  The build without gamin was performed in chroot (as the 
root user).  By the time I added gamin, and retested, I was using an 
unprivileged user in a real environment, and so the test suite passed, 
but it didn't have a thing to do with gamin.  I removed gamin, and 
retested...all is well with glib2.  Sorry for the false alarm.

-- DJ Lucas


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