GNU bug report logs - #20960
handling /etc/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt by default in emacs

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Petr Hracek <phracek <at> redhat.com>

Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 09:58:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 20960 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Petr Hracek <phracek <at> redhat.com>, 20960 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20960: handling /etc/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt by default in
 emacs
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2015 11:38:25 -0400

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> (setq smime-CA-directory "/etc/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt")

On my RHEL7 system, this isn't a directory.
It is a symlink to /etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/pem/tls-ca-bundle.pem,
a file.

> That file name is platform-dependent, and even on Unix the bundle can
> be found in several different directories.

So let's compile a list of the standard places and default to the first
that exists, similar to what gnutls-trustfiles does. (Does these two
variables duplicate each other?)
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