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From: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
Subject: bug#23504: git 2.7.4 fails to clone repositories over HTTPS sources
Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 15:11:34 +0200
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To: Dennis Mungai <dmngaie@gmail.com>
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Dennis Mungai <dmngaie@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello there,
>
> I'm using git 2.7.4 from a guix profile, and here is my current environment:
>
> guix package -p ~/opt/guix-build-system --search-paths
> warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument
> export PATH="/home/lin/opt/guix-build-system/bin:/home/lin/opt/guix-build-system/sbin"
> export XDG_DATA_DIRS="/home/lin/opt/guix-build-system/share"
> export GUIX_GTK3_PATH="/home/lin/opt/guix-build-system/lib/gtk-3.0"
> export INFOPATH="/home/lin/opt/guix-build-system/share/info"
> export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/home/lin/opt/guix-build-system/lib/pkgconfig"
> export GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH="/home/lin/opt/guix-build-system/lib/guile/2.0/ccache"
> export C_INCLUDE_PATH="/home/lin/opt/guix-build-system/include"
> export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH="/home/lin/opt/guix-build-system/include"
> export LIBRARY_PATH="/home/lin/opt/guix-build-system/lib"
> export ACLOCAL_PATH="/home/lin/opt/guix-build-system/share/aclocal"
>
> which env returns:
>
> which env
> /home/lin/opt/guix-build-system/bin/env
>
> Now, with git clone example over HTTPS:
>
> git clone --branch gn-latest https://github.com/genenetwork/guix-bioinformatics
> Cloning into 'guix-bioinformatics'...
> fatal: unable to access
> 'https://github.com/genenetwork/guix-bioinformatics/': server
> certificate verification failed. CAfile: none CRLfile: none
>
> The system git does not present such an error.
>
> What could be wrong with my setup? Missing certificates?

Please try this:

    export GIT_SSL_CAPATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/ssl/certs

Assuming that nss-certs has been installed into $HOME/.guix-profile this
should be enough to make it work.

I wonder how we can make it easier to tell the user that this
environment variable must be set.

~~ Ricardo