bug#40858: Cargo in Guix

[Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>]

Hello,

Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> writes:

> Le 25 avril 2020 18:17:16 GMT-04:00, Jan Ole Zabel <jan.zabel@posteo.de> a écrit :
>>Hi,
>>
>>I just installed the rust package on guix-system and realized I have no
>>idea of how to use `cargo` to build something. First, cargo is not in
>>my
>>search path after installing `rust`, because there is no link in
>>`.guix-profile`. There is no dedicated package either. 
>
> The rust package has multiple outputs. Its default output doesn't
> contain cargo, but it has a cargo output which you found in the
> store. You can install it with:
>
> guix install rust:cargo
>
>>Second, the
>>cargo binary installed in `/gnu/store/` throws the following:
>>
>>	$ /gnu/store/*-rust-1.39.0-cargo/bin/cargo install ripgrep
>>	error: failed to download from
>>`https://crates.io/api/ripgrep/12.0.1/download`
>>	
>>	Caused by:
>>	  [60] SSL peer certificate or SSH remote key not found (server
>>certificate verification failed. CAfile: none CRLFile: none)
>>
>>A `curl https://crates.io` works normally, so it's not an issue with
>>the
>>system certificates.
>
> My guess is that curl comes from your foreign system? Guix packages
> don't read the global location. Have you performed these additional
> steps after installing guix?
>
> http://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/X_002e509-Certificates.html#X_002e509-Certificates
>
>>
>>Am I doing something wrong? Is this even the right place to report or
>>ask?
>
> guix-help would have been a better place for this one I think.
>
> I hope this helped a bit :)

Thanks to Julien for the assistance.

Closing this forgotten issue.

Maxim