[Buildroot] [[PATCH v2 07/14] package/mender: select BR2_PACKAGE_CA_CERTIFICATES

[Mirza Krak]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 4:54 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 15:09:07 +0200, Mirza Krak wrote:
>> Mender uses TLS to community with the management server,
>> and if CA signed certificates are used we must have
>> the ca-certificates package installed to be able to
>> verify these.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mirza Krak <mirza.krak at northern.tech>
>
> I am not sure we want to make this a mandatory dependency. If people
> are using a management server that provides a CA signed certificate,
> then they should add the ca-certificates package to their build.
>
> Perhaps this belongs more to a note in the Config.in help text. Or
> maybe even Mender deserves a package/mender/readme.txt, which a bit like
> boot/grub2/readme.txt, would give more details about Mender's
> integration in Buildroot.

Makes sense.

Thanks for the hint on creating a readme.txt. Will make so sure to do that.

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Mirza Krak | Embedded Solutions Architect | https://mender.io

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