curl_ca_bundle, and gnurl?

[ng0 <ngillmann@runbox.com>]

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> myglc2 <myglc2@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> With GuixSD user config ...
……
>>  )
>
> You forgot to actually add “nss-certs” to the manifest.  After adding
> “nss-certs” you need to set the environment variable CURL_CA_BUNDLE:
>
>   export CURL_CA_BUNDLE=/home/rekado/.myglc2-profile/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
>
> (I only recently patched r-curl to respect this environment variable.
> We should patch libcurl so that all packages using libcurl understand
> it.)
>

I wonder if we need this for gnurl or if the code base of gnurl is still
curl-like enough that it respects the variable.. last time I tried gnurl
as a user on its own (which is *not* the intended use) was on Gentoo.
Gnurl is afaik not (yet) a gnu project and requires no sync with the gnu
descriptions.. I should add this to the description.

But can you share some insights why curl requires this? For gnurl I rely
on its test suite, but I think curl does not complain about the missing
CURL_CA_BUNDLE in its test suite either, or does it?

And if gnurl should require this, how could I fix gnurl (not the package
description in guix) to drop this strange behavior if it is possible at
all?

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> ~~ Ricardo
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