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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) wrote:
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> Well, I just found something sort of interesting.  It looks like the certs
> end up in the file libnssckbi.so when NSS builds.  Firefox used to have
> this file at /usr/lib/firefox/libnssckbi.so, but now it's just there as the
> NSS copy at /usr/lib/libnssckbi.so.  However, the NSS copy still appears to
> have the certs.
>
> If I do 'ln -s /usr/lib/libnssckbi.so /usr/lib/firefox/.', I get a copy of
> firefox that has all the root certs and appears to work like it should.
> So, we apparently still have the certs, we just have to make the browsers
> use them.  I don't know if this ln is the way to do that, or if the "right
> way" is something else.
>
> Arwed, can you see if you see something similar for mozilla/galeon?

The symlink would allow the certs to be updated by just updating nss
instead of having to update mozilla, firefox, galeon, etc. That may be
a benefit. :)

- -sandalle

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