From 5151e2afee98adebce061215ecda6a739c4f2ecd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brad Warren Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 15:36:42 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] add OS package warning (#8533) --- certbot/docs/install.rst | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/certbot/docs/install.rst b/certbot/docs/install.rst index c1d8cc403..4a5a18fc2 100644 --- a/certbot/docs/install.rst +++ b/certbot/docs/install.rst @@ -207,6 +207,18 @@ of the ``/etc/letsencrypt`` directory, see :ref:`where-certs`. Operating System Packages ------------------------- +.. warning:: While the Certbot team tries to keep the Certbot packages offered + by various operating systems working in the most basic sense, due to + distribution policies and/or the limited resources of distribution + maintainers, Certbot OS packages often have problems that other distribution + mechanisms do not. The packages are often old resulting in a lack of bug + fixes and features and a worse TLS configuration than is generated by newer + versions of Certbot. They also may not configure certificate renewal for you + or have all of Certbot's plugins available. For reasons like these, we + recommend most users follow the instructions at + https://certbot.eff.org/instructions and OS packages are only documented + here as an alternative. + **Arch Linux** .. code-block:: shell