[Buildroot] [PATCH] Revert "dependencies: check that SSL certificates are installed"

[Baruch Siach]

Hi Thomas,

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 09:27:27AM +0300, Baruch Siach wrote:
> This reverts commit d66cd067f3dc3d5e2479e1e8c05f24fd82329f7a.
> 
> SSL certificates are no always installed in /etc/ssl/certs. For example, on
> CentOS 5.6 the default OpenSSL certificates directory is /etc/pki/tls/certs,
> and wget can download using https without any problem.
> 
> Moreover, the existence of /etc/ssl/certs does not guarantee the presence of a
> CA certificates bundle even on Debian. On my current Debian testing
> installation the openssl package itself creates an empty /etc/ssl/certs
> directory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il>
> ---

As the author of d66cd067f3, what do you think?

baruch

>  support/dependencies/dependencies.sh |    9 ---------
>  1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/support/dependencies/dependencies.sh b/support/dependencies/dependencies.sh
> index ce4d9e1..0b44c5a 100755
> --- a/support/dependencies/dependencies.sh
> +++ b/support/dependencies/dependencies.sh
> @@ -200,12 +200,3 @@ if ! perl  -e "require Data::Dumper" > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
>      /bin/echo -e "On Debian/Ubuntu distributions, install the 'perl' package."
>      exit 1
>  fi
> -
> -# Check that we have the SSL certificates to make https:// downloads
> -# work.
> -if ! test -d /etc/ssl/certs; then
> -    /bin/echo -e "Your system lacks Common CA certificates for SSL."
> -    /bin/echo -e "This prevents https:// downloads from succeeding."
> -    /bin/echo -e "On Debian/Ubuntu distributions, install 'ca-certificates' package."
> -    exit 1
> -fi
> -- 
> 1.7.10.4
> 

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