[BlueOnyx:22870] Re: CERTINFO missing from our curl

[Steve Howes]

On 2019-05-03 18:36, Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet wrote:
> Note, this applies to any platform running on Enterprise Linux 7
> (RHEL-based) systems such as CentOS.
> 
> We have an application that requires certinfo to be available on curl,
> but our version lacks this.   Therefore, the application is failing.  
> It's a fairly critical piece and we'd like to keep it on a BlueOnyx
> server.  Any suggestions for quickly working in a fully-functioning
> curl in such a manner that won't break things going forward?   I note
> that cPanel's curl is an older version, but does include the certinfo
> tool.   I suppose one option would be to manually remove the stock rpm
> from the BX box and copy over the cPanel one.  Not sure if that will
> lead to future conflicts.
> 
> Thanks!

Is it the actual curl binary, or a curl library in PHP? If it's the 
binary you could copy an appropriate one in and call it curl2 or 
something and point the app at that. Or leave it as 'curl' and wrap that 
application in a script that modifies $PATH to include your custom one.

Steve