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To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
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On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 03:31:14PM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> The single-file bundle is just a concatenation of all the individual PEM
> data, starting with "-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----" and ending with
> "-----END CERTIFICATE-----", including those delimiters.
> The only caveat is that the individual PEM files are not required to
> have a newline after the "-----END CERTIFICATE-----", but in the
> single-file cert bundle, we must ensure that the newline is present.

I just did a "cat" of two .pem files from nss-certs, and the result
looked good. There are comment lines (starting with #) between the
"-----END CERTIFICATE-----" and the following "-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----",
which I hope is okay.

> I think it belongs in the profile generation code for the benefit of
> users running Guix packages on top of another distro, where they might
> not have root access.  They can simply set GIT_SSL_CAINFO and
> SSL_CERT_FILE to ~/.guix-profile/etc/ssl/ca-certificates.crt
> What do you think?

Yes, that sounds like the right approach: Create a concatenation of all the
files in ~/.guix-profile/etc/ssl/certs .

Andreas