Re: [fetchmail-users] Fetchmail 6.3.0 released

[Simon B. <ba...@Fr...>]

Rob MacGregor wrote:
> On 10/12/05, Simon Barner <ba...@fr...> wrote:
> >
> > The patch is included in fetchmail-6.3.0_1. Thanks for the quick fix,
> > Matthias!
> 
> Only problem is - it doesn't really fix anything without some other
> finger waving.
> 
> Poking around, using truss etc, I discovered that the base libraries
> look in /etc/ssl/certs, the version of c_rehash (that doesn't get
> installed) that hides in the source tree looks in /usr/local/ssl/certs
> and the ports version of openssl looks in /usr/local/openssl/certs.
> 
> In short, a bit of a mess :-)
> 
> So, the only way to get it to work is to point /etc/ssl/certs at
> /usr/local/openssl/certs and use the c_rehash that comes with the port
> (but given the version differences, I doubt that's a good idea, even
> if it's what I've done).  Or to edit and install the c_rehash that
> comes with the source tree, but doesn't get installed (and create the
> top level directory required).

The security/ca-roots port creates a link from /etc/ssl/cert.pem ->
/usr/local/share/certs/ca-root.crt

I've just verified that fetchmail picks up those certificates if they
are installed onto a pristine /etc/ssl.

I'll think about adding a dependency in fetchmail.

> 
> I'm happy to raise a PR about this as I'd like to see this easier for
> others to get working - FreeBSD really shouldn't be this hard, that's
> what Linux is for :-)
> 
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> Rob MacGregor
>       Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he
>         doesn't become a monster.                  Friedrich Nietzsche

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