Hello,

Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Maxim Cournoyer <[email protected]> skribis:
>
>> I guess we could rename NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE to just SSL_CERT_FILE in the
>> above patch and add the $SSL_CERT_FILE search path to bring us closer to
>> what OpenSSL supports?
>
> As a rule of thumb, I would avoid diverging from upstream, especially
> for touchy points like this one: it quickly gets problematic when a
> same-named package behaves differently across distros.
>
> In this case, because GnuTLS does not honor any environment variables,
> applications/libraries linked against it have to provide their own
> mechanism for users to specify the certificate search path.  Normally,
> they already do that.

I'm closing this; GnuTLS now uses p11-kit with a default trust store
that includes the nss-certs certificates on the gnome-team branch, which
will should soon be in a state to be merged to master.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim



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