[Buildroot] [PATCH] Revert "dependencies: check that SSL certificates are installed"

[Spenser Gilliland]

Just wanted to chime in say that I can confirm this is a bug on
CentOS/RHEL 5 systems.

Spenser

On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il> wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 09:27:27AM +0300, Baruch Siach wrote:
>> This reverts commit d66cd067f3dc3d5e2479e1e8c05f24fd82329f7a.
>>
>> SSL certificates are no always installed in /etc/ssl/certs. For example, on
>> CentOS 5.6 the default OpenSSL certificates directory is /etc/pki/tls/certs,
>> and wget can download using https without any problem.
>>
>> Moreover, the existence of /etc/ssl/certs does not guarantee the presence of a
>> CA certificates bundle even on Debian. On my current Debian testing
>> installation the openssl package itself creates an empty /etc/ssl/certs
>> directory.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il>
>> ---
>
> As the author of d66cd067f3, what do you think?
>
> baruch
>
>>  support/dependencies/dependencies.sh |    9 ---------
>>  1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/support/dependencies/dependencies.sh b/support/dependencies/dependencies.sh
>> index ce4d9e1..0b44c5a 100755
>> --- a/support/dependencies/dependencies.sh
>> +++ b/support/dependencies/dependencies.sh
>> @@ -200,12 +200,3 @@ if ! perl  -e "require Data::Dumper" > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
>>      /bin/echo -e "On Debian/Ubuntu distributions, install the 'perl' package."
>>      exit 1
>>  fi
>> -
>> -# Check that we have the SSL certificates to make https:// downloads
>> -# work.
>> -if ! test -d /etc/ssl/certs; then
>> -    /bin/echo -e "Your system lacks Common CA certificates for SSL."
>> -    /bin/echo -e "This prevents https:// downloads from succeeding."
>> -    /bin/echo -e "On Debian/Ubuntu distributions, install 'ca-certificates' package."
>> -    exit 1
>> -fi
>> --
>> 1.7.10.4
>>
>
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Spenser Gilliland
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