On November 8, 2016 1:47:28 AM CST, Wayne Blaszczyk <[email protected]> 
wrote:
>Last I looked at this, comparing nss to firefox tarballs, it seemed to
>me 
>at the time that firefox was more current, or maybe I was comparing to
>what
> was in the Mozilla repostitory. I cannot remember now, but for some
>reason
> I switched from nss to firefox.

Yes, they tend to go back and forth. I *believe* that this has been the 
effective policy for the Mozilla products in the book since the inclusion of 
standalone NSS (~2008 at best guess), but that needs to be verified. Most 
recommended will be the release branch for certdata.txt, with latest always 
being NSS tip. 
http://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/raw-file/default/lib/ckfw/builtins/certdata.txt

Ultimately, the book needs some policy. The release branch has worked for the 
CLI apps for a long time (and obviously FF, SM, and TB). Maybe we could add 
some pointers to additional reading, in the book or the wiki, for those who 
want (or need) to brave the latest and greatest. Even the perl script included 
with curl could be utilized to do a comparison. One could even go so far as to 
update the shared nssdb with the modified trust from upstream, but that's a bit 
too much for the book IMO. I'm not against making mention of it, along with the 
"beyond the scope of the BLFS book" blurb.

--DJ


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