cacerts support

Thomas Fitzsimmons fitzsim at redhat.com
Thu May 29 12:42:36 PDT 2008


Hi,

I deleted patches/icedtea-certbundle.patch.  There were problems with the 
approach of reading system-installed certs directly, the main one being that 
some apps explicitly require the existence of a valid cacerts file.  See for 
example:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Security:_KeyStore_support_for_Eclipse

In Fedora we've created a new noarch package to host certificates, called 
ca-certificates.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448497

It runs keytool to generate /etc/pki/java/cacerts from Mozilla's certificates. 
The OpenJDK package depends on ca-certificates and symlinks 
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0/jre/lib/security/cacerts to 
/etc/pki/java/cacerts.

Other distributions may need to follow suit.

Tom



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