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authorRoss Burton <ross@burtonini.com>2021-08-10 17:55:09 +0100
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2021-08-12 06:27:39 +0100
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fetch2/wget: fetch securely by default
The days of broken certificates are behind us now, so instead of always passing --no-check-certificate to wget, don't pass it by default and instead only pass it BB_CHECK_SSL_CERTS = "0". [ YOCTO #14108 ] Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-fetching.rst4
-rw-r--r--doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.rst4
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diff --git a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-fetching.rst b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-fetching.rst
index 593de61f2..40b245b6d 100644
--- a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-fetching.rst
+++ b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-fetching.rst
@@ -144,6 +144,10 @@ download without a checksum triggers an error message. The
make any attempted network access a fatal error, which is useful for
checking that mirrors are complete as well as other things.
+If :term:`BB_CHECK_SSL_CERTS` is set to ``0`` then SSL certificate checking will
+be disabled. This variable defaults to ``1`` so SSL certificates are normally
+checked.
+
.. _bb-the-unpack:
The Unpack
diff --git a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.rst b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.rst
index 6283c2654..2392ec425 100644
--- a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.rst
+++ b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.rst
@@ -93,6 +93,10 @@ overview of their function and contents.
fetcher does not attempt to use the host listed in :term:`SRC_URI` after
a successful fetch from the :term:`PREMIRRORS` occurs.
+ :term:`BB_CHECK_SSL_CERTS`
+ Specifies if SSL certificates should be checked when fetching. The default
+ value is ``1`` and certificates are not checked if the value is set to ``0``.
+
:term:`BB_CONSOLELOG`
Specifies the path to a log file into which BitBake's user interface
writes output during the build.