On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 at 17:51, Eli Schwartz <eschwa...@archlinux.org> wrote:
> On 11/14/18 11:37 AM, Maarten de Vries wrote: > > These patches add support for client certificates to alpm and pacman. > > > > This can already be achieved currently by setting an XferCommand, > > but doing so significantly reduces the quality of the feedback pacman > > gives during the downloads. Especially annoying are the 404 errors on > > most database signature files, but that's not the only issue. > > > > I admit this is a bit of an edge case, but I find myself in the > > situation where I have to download packages from a private repository > > that requires a valid client certificate. I really want the nice regular > > pacman feedback back though, so I figured I'd hack it in myself. > Surely this can also be achieved by adding the certificate to your > system certificate store? > > No, that would work if I want to verify a self signed server certificate (or a server certificate issues by a private CA). But I need to present a client certificate to the server. > -- > Eli Schwartz > Bug Wrangler and Trusted User > >