From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: GnuTLS and the =?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=9Ctrust_store=E2=80=9D?= Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 16:12:25 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20170104144655.12321-1-ng0@libertad.pw> <20170104144655.12321-2-ng0@libertad.pw> <874m1ezugu.fsf@kirby.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <871swizsqv.fsf@kirby.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <87vatuimnp.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <87h95escjh.fsf@wasp.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <87shoxvlzt.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55477) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cP9iW-00058N-AM for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2017 10:12:40 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cP9iT-00062J-3C for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2017 10:12:36 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87shoxvlzt.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: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Ludovic Court=C3=A8s 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 =E2=80=9Cthese issues with cURL=E2=80=9D? It builds fine, and = it=E2=80=99s 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=E2=80=99s an easy fix and allows us to solve the problem at the root i= nstead of trying to come up with a fix for every user of libcurl. ~~ Ricardo