Bug#489299: boinc-client: SSL doesn't work, and so WCG project can't transfer data.

[Frank S. Thomas]

On Saturday 05 July 2008 21:50, Steffen Moeller wrote:
> no idea what is wrong. I just installed boinc-client and boinc-manager
> and the download from WCG just works. Admittedly, I do have such a
> ca-bundle file,

Thanks for testing this. I can also confirm that the latest boinc-client 
together with ca-certificates/20080617 works with WCG.

> moeller at notebook:~$ locate ca-bundle
> /usr/share/apps/kssl/ca-bundle.crt
> /var/lib/boinc-client/ca-bundle.crt
>
> which is probably installed by some post-install script or so

Right, boinc-client's postinst script creates this symbolic link that points 
to /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt.

> moeller at notebook:~$ dpkg -S /var/lib/boinc-client/ca-bundle.crt
> dpkg: /var/lib/boinc-client/ca-bundle.crt nicht gefunden.
>
> and a symbolic link to what the bug reported suggested.
>
> moeller at notebook:~$ ls -l !$
> ls -l /var/lib/boinc-client/ca-bundle.crt
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 24. Mär 15:43
> /var/lib/boinc-client/ca-bundle.crt -> /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
>
> I was first slightly irritated about that symbolic link being dated from
> March.

I guess you removed boinc-client back then but did not purge it. 
boinc-client's postrm script only purges /var/lib/boinc-client if the user 
explicitly wants that.

> It seems like I have this on my machine for a while already, but 
> having tested this on another machine, I can report that this symbolic
> link was indeed newly created by boinc-client.
>
> Steffen (now contributing more to FightAids at Home)

Me too.

Cheers and thanks,
Frank
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