From: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GnuTLS and the “trust store”
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 16:12:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <idjk2a9sfqe.fsf@bimsb-sys02.mdc-berlin.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87shoxvlzt.fsf@gnu.org>
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>> I'm trying to understand the problem here, the problem why
>> packages like darcs, pbpst, and others are just sitting, waiting
>> for months because of issues with cURL.
>
> What is “these issues with cURL”? It builds fine, and it’s perfectly
> usable as long as /etc/ssl/certs is populated.
I still think that we ought to patch libcurl such that it checks the
environment variable CURL_CA_BUNDLE. NixOS used to do this in the past,
IIRC.
It’s an easy fix and allows us to solve the problem at the root instead
of trying to come up with a fix for every user of libcurl.
~~ Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-05 15:12 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 [this message]
2017-01-05 14:11 ` Marius Bakke
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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