[arch-general] CA certifcates

[Armin K.]

On 05/30/2014 05:15 AM, Eduardo Machado wrote:
> 2014-05-29 5:30 GMT-03:00 Timothée Ravier <siosm99 at gmail.com>:
> 
>> On 29/05/2014 04:30, Eduardo Machado wrote:
>>> But... This week, after a system upgrade both Firefox and Chrome,
>>> stopped to reflect this, even after i did all the above process
>>> again.
>>>
>>> Firefox and Chrome are not using the ca-certificates package? Is
>>> there a way to do what i'm trying to do (a central point to manage
>>> certificates for all apps, especially browsers)?
>>
>> Fedora has been working on something close to what you'd want: one place
>> to manage all certificates:
>>
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SharedSystemCertificates
>>
>> I don't know how hard it would be integrate this into Arch Linux.
>>
> 
> I will study this so i can help. Anyone already looking into this?
> 
> But what was strange for me was that doing the steps i listed above it
> worked at Arch some months ago...
> 
> Do you know where Firefox or Chrome look for this list of CA certs?
> 
> 

Firefox uses certificates from NSS database which is I believe compiled
into NSS library (the same file is used to generate most if not all of
ca-certificates though). I presume chrome/ium does the same.

>>
>>> And, a last question, is there a way to run a script after a
>>> specific package upgrade?
>>
>> I think this has been discussed at some point but this hasn't been
>> implemented yet as far as I remember.
>>
>> --
>> Timothée Ravier
>>
> 
> Thanks for the answer.
> 


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