Re: [PATCH] gnurl: add CA path to configure-flags

[ng0 <ng0@we.make.ritual.n0.is>]

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On 2016-06-13(04:43:32+0200), Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:
>
> > On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 08:51:28PM +0000, ng0 wrote:
> >> * gnurl(configure-flags): --with-ca-path=/etc/ssl/certs/
> >
> > my impression is that this absolute path does not do what we would like
> > it to. Optimally, the user would decide, by installing a certificate bundle
> > into the profile, which certificates to use. And on a foreign distro, the
> > random certificate bundle in /etc/ssl/certs, which does not come from Guix,
> > would be used by the Guix gnurl, which would be surprising.
>
> Besides, our cURL and Gnurl packages are linked against GnuTLS, which is
> itself configured with ‘--with-default-trust-store-dir=/etc/ssl/certs’.
>
> Does ‘--with-ca-path’ change anything to that?
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
>

I strongly assume that with those set, --with-ca-path is unnecessary.

This is something which Jookia came up with, I had it sitting in the
work in progress patches.


I know patches are now tracked in patchworks, can they be closed via
Email, or do I have to sign up? Else someone who already is signed up
can close this, as from my perspective this is done.

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