CVS commit: pkgsrc/security/ca-certificates

["Greg Troxel" <gdt%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Module Name:    pkgsrc
Committed By:   gdt
Date:           Tue Jul 20 12:59:07 UTC 2021

Modified Files:
        pkgsrc/security/ca-certificates: DESCR

Log Message:
security/ca-certifcates: Extned DESCR

Note that this package is irregular because it modifies configuration
outside of pkgsrc.

Add a see-also for mozilla-rootcerts{,-openssl}.


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.2 -r1.3 pkgsrc/security/ca-certificates/DESCR

Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
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Modified files:

Index: pkgsrc/security/ca-certificates/DESCR
diff -u pkgsrc/security/ca-certificates/DESCR:1.2 pkgsrc/security/ca-certificates/DESCR:1.3
--- pkgsrc/security/ca-certificates/DESCR:1.2   Mon Jun  8 09:55:36 2020
+++ pkgsrc/security/ca-certificates/DESCR       Tue Jul 20 12:59:06 2021
@@ -1,7 +1,12 @@
 This package provides the certificates distributed by the Mozilla
 Project and will, by default, install certificates trusted by the
-Mozilla Project in the system certificate store.
+Mozilla Project in the system OpenSSL certificate store.  Modification
+of system configuration files is very irregular as pkgsrc should not
+write anything outside of ${PREFIX}.
 
 The sysadmin can configure the list of trusted certificates and also
 add local certificates as needed by editing ca-certificates.conf and
 re-running update-ca-certificates.
+
+See also the mozilla-rootcerts and mozilla-rootcerts-openssl packages
+for an alternative approach.