From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: r-curl: Respect CURL_CA_BUNDLE variable. Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 21:17:59 -0400 Message-ID: <20160914011759.GA16363@jasmine> References: <20160907145659.7543-1-ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> <87d1k7sbz6.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45337) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bjyqK-0004C7-5U for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2016 21:18:29 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bjyqF-00026B-UN for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2016 21:18:27 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87d1k7sbz6.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Roel Janssen Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 11:53:33PM +0200, Roel Janssen wrote: > This patch was essential to me being able to interact with HTTPS urls in > R. As far as I understand, by default, R only looks for CURL_CA_BUNDLE > on Windows, but with this patch it looks for CURL_CA_BUNDLE on GNU/Linux > as well. Is this correct? > > I can confirm it works for me, so I'd like to see this patch pushed. It's good to hear that it works, but I still think we should run it by the upstream maintainers. We are activating C code that they specifically decided not to use on GNU / Linux. Why did they do that?