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+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1655253 +++

In the Fedora's python-certifi package, we patch the logic to not use the bundled root certificate, but the system one instead:

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-certifi/blob/master/f/certifi-2018.10.15-use-system-cert.patch

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-certifi/blob/f27/f/python-certifi.spec#_71 (using f27 branch here to have a stable line number)

python-pip bundles it's own certifi (and for multiple reasons we don't unbundle stuff from pip) on RHEL 8. We should make sure to apply the same patch.

certifi is a (rather insecure) hack for platforms that don't have a good central location for the root certificates, we should not be using their pem certificate from pip.

We'll also need to fix virtualenv

https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/pull/1252

Created attachment 1514332 [details]
dist git patch for python-virtualenv

I wasn't able to push to my fork.