From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GnuTLS and the “trust store”
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2017 15:11:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87inpty4tw.fsf@kirby.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vatuimnp.fsf_-_@gnu.org>
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Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> Hello!
>
> Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> skribis:
>
>> Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> ng0 <ng0@libertad.pw> writes:
>>>
>>>> * gnu/packages/curl.scm (curl)[arguments]: Add "--with-ca-bundle" configure flag.
>
> [...]
>
>> I realized shortly after posting why this wasn't done already. Curl has
>> 1403 dependent packages, which would apply for "nss-certs" as well if
>> that is added as input. Obviously we want to be able to update TLS
>> certificates quickly without rebuilding ~1/4 of the tree.
>
> Indeed. It’s a situation where we do not want to have a static binding
> between cURL and nss-certs; instead, they should be composed
> dynamically, along the lines of what we already recommend at:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/X_002e509-Certificates.html
Curl respects the variable "CURL_CA_BUNDLE". I think we could add a
"native-search-path" for that, similar to how it's done for "git".
ng0, can you try that?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-05 14:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-04 14:46 PATCH as first attempt to fix the sad curl situation ng0
2017-01-04 14:46 ` [PATCH] gnu: curl: Add ca-bundle to config ng0
2017-01-04 16:00 ` Marius Bakke
2017-01-04 16:37 ` Marius Bakke
2017-01-04 17:07 ` ng0
2017-01-04 17:16 ` ng0
2017-01-04 17:23 ` ng0
2017-01-05 15:24 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-01-04 20:40 ` GnuTLS and the “trust store” Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-04 22:09 ` ng0
2017-01-05 10:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-05 15:12 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-01-05 14:11 ` Marius Bakke [this message]
2017-01-05 15:08 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-01-05 23:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-06 14:20 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-01-07 21:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-04 14:48 ` PATCH as first attempt to fix the sad curl situation ng0
2017-01-04 17:56 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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