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dropping Of cert.pem File

This is a proposed Change for Fedora Linux.
This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes process, proposals are publicly announced in order to receive community feedback. This proposal will only be implemented if approved by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee.

Summary

In order to increase the performance of OpenSSL by default using directory-hash format we need to drop the /etc/pki/tls/cert.pem file to prevent it from being loaded by default.

Owner

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Name: František Krenželok

Email: fkrenzel@redhat.com

Current status

Targeted release: Fedora Linux 42
Last updated: 2024-09-25
[Announced]
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Detailed Description

In order to improve the loading time of OpenSSL a directory-hash support was added to ca-certificates. In order for OpenSSL to use the directory-hash format by default we need to stop in from trying to load /etc/pki/tls/cert.pem by deleting it.

Feedback

Benefit to Fedora

Applications using OpenSSL(possibly other libraries as well) will benefit from much faster initialization of OpenSSL.

Scope

Proposal owners:

The change is already in the rawhide

Other developers:

Any package loading the root certificates from /etc/pki/tls/cert.pem file need to preferably use the defaults of the library or if they must, use the /etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/pem/tls-ca-bundle.pem file instead.

Release engineering: #Releng issue number

Policies and guidelines: N/A (not needed for this Change)

Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

Alignment with the Fedora Strategy:

Upgrade/compatibility impact

Early Testing (Optional)

Do you require 'QA Blueprint' support? Y/N

How To Test

User Experience

Dependencies

Contingency Plan

Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change), Yes/No

Documentation

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Release Notes

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+In order to increase the performance of OpenSSL by default using directory-hash format we need to drop the /etc/pki/tls/cert.pem file to prevent it from being loaded by default.
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+* Name: [[User:Fkrenzel| František Krenželok]]
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 == Detailed Description ==
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+In order to improve the loading time of OpenSSL a directory-hash support was added to ca-certificates. In order for OpenSSL to use the directory-hash format by default we need to stop in from trying to load /etc/pki/tls/cert.pem by deleting it.
 == Feedback ==
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 == Benefit to Fedora ==
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+Applications using OpenSSL(possibly other libraries as well) will benefit from much faster initialization of OpenSSL.
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 == Scope ==
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+The change is already in the rawhide
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+* Other developers:
-<!-- What work do other developers have to accomplish to complete the feature in time for release?  Is it a large change affecting many parts of the distribution or is it a very isolated change? What are those changes?-->
+Any package loading the root certificates from `/etc/pki/tls/cert.pem` file need to preferably use the defaults of the library or if they must, use the `/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/pem/tls-ca-bundle.pem` file instead.
 * Release engineering: [https://pagure.io/releng/issues #Releng issue number] <!-- REQUIRED FOR SYSTEM WIDE CHANGES -->

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