[Buildroot] [[PATCH v2 07/14] package/mender: select BR2_PACKAGE_CA_CERTIFICATES

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 20/08/2018 19:33, Mirza Krak wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 4:54 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
> <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 15:09:07 +0200, Mirza Krak wrote:
>>> Mender uses TLS to community with the management server,
>>> and if CA signed certificates are used we must have
>>> the ca-certificates package installed to be able to
>>> verify these.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Mirza Krak <mirza.krak at northern.tech>
>>
>> I am not sure we want to make this a mandatory dependency. If people
>> are using a management server that provides a CA signed certificate,
>> then they should add the ca-certificates package to their build.
>>
>> Perhaps this belongs more to a note in the Config.in help text. Or
>> maybe even Mender deserves a package/mender/readme.txt, which a bit like
>> boot/grub2/readme.txt, would give more details about Mender's
>> integration in Buildroot.
> 
> Makes sense.
> 
> Thanks for the hint on creating a readme.txt. Will make so sure to do that.
> 

 Assuming you're going to create this readme.txt, I've marked this patch as
Changes Requested.

 Regards,
 Arnout