[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#926315: openssl: wget https://google.com fails in d-i

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior]

On 2019-04-03 11:14:54 [+0100], Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> $ wget https://google.com
> 
> fails in Buster alpha installer, when used from a booted netinst iso
> in a tty. It also means that fetch-url fails, and thus one cannot use
> https preseeding.
> 
> A fix/workaround, is $ touch /usr/lib/ssl/openssl.cnf it appears that
> openssl requires for that file to be present, and it cannot be a
> dangling symlink. However, in udeb environment such file does not
> exists. I guess that maybe libssl1.1-udeb should ship an empty
> openssl.cnf there, or ship the regular deb's /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf in
> /usr/lib/ssl/openssl.cnf in the udeb.

interresting.
Kurt: should we provide the openssl.cnf and move it from openssl to
libssl1.1 as well or should we rather treat the missing openssl.cnf as
okay?

> Regards,
> 
> Dimitri.

Sebastian