fetch problem on relatively new 10.0-RELEASE-p7 host

Andrew Berg aberg010 at my.hennepintech.edu
Wed Aug 27 17:54:32 UTC 2014


On 2014.08.27 12:19, Michael Sierchio wrote:
> It seems, after running in verbose mode, that the (undocumented in the
> man page) default location for the trusted Root CA bundle is
> 
> /etc/ssl/cert.pem
> 
> which doesn't exist. I created a symlink to
> 
> /usr/local/share/certs/ca-root-nss.crt
> 
> and fetching from a URI whose method is HTTPS now works.
Yes, naturally, something in base would go looking in /etc rather than
/usr/local/etc. The ca_root_nss port has an option to create this symlink.
There is also an environment variable available to make fetch download
something anyway. I forget what it is, but I'm pretty sure it's documented in
the fetch(3) man page or such.


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