Pidgin 2.5.0 has a new configure option, --with-system-ssl-certs=path, that allows packagers to specify a system-wide certificates directory. As Gentoo provides the app-misc/ca-certificates package, it is possible to specify /etc/ssl/certs as the path. This support requires a simple ebuild patch, which I will attach (also, the description field in the latest ebuild disappeared!). I added app-misc/ca-certificates as a hard dependency, which I'm not sure is correct. This works, and seems fine, except that one certificate included with Pidgin is not included in the ca-certificates-20080514-r2 release, a Microsoft certificate (Microsoft_Secure_Server_Authority.pem), so pretty important for MSN messenger users. Should I submit a request upstream to get the certificate added to the ca-certificates package? Thanks Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Created attachment 163394 [details, diff] patch to pidgin-2.5.0.ebuild to enable building with system-wide ssl certificates in /etc/ssl/certs
The upstream is debian... I'm not in a rush to use the system ca-certs, its only a couple text files anyway.
