fetch problem on relatively new 10.0-RELEASE-p7 host

[Michael Sierchio]

I suppose the puzzling thing was the missing

/etc/ssl/cert.pem

So, is my install broken, or is this just prudent, abundance-of-caution,
and on purpose?

- M


On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Andrew Berg <aberg010 at my.hennepintech.edu>
wrote:

> 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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