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git 2.7.4 fails to clone repositories over HTTPS sources

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From: Dennis Mungai <dmngaie <at> gmail.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 23504 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23504: git 2.7.4 fails to clone repositories over HTTPS
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Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 11:16:32 +0300

Also, your workaround worked (in git, at least).

I'm not sure if there are other cases affected by this in the wild.

On 11 May 2016 at 11:10, Dennis Mungai <dmngaie <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> Sorry for the late reply.
>
> I used Pjotr's Guix hacking notes to fix the problem , solution:
>
> https://github.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/HACKING.org#git-ca-certificates
>
>
>
> On 10 May 2016 at 16:46, Dennis Mungai <dmngaie <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sure, will do.
>>
>> On 10 May 2016 at 16:38, Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>>> Dennis Mungai <dmngaie <at> gmail.com> skribis:
>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>> At the moment, I've installed the nss-certs package hoping it would be
>>>> a workaround as these are Mozilla certs, but to no avail.
>>>
>>> I think you also need to set the ‘GIT_SSL_CAINFO’ environment variable.
>>> For instance:
>>>
>>>      $ guix package -i nss-certs
>>>      $ export SSL_CERT_DIR="$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/ssl/certs"
>>>      $ export SSL_CERT_FILE="$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt"
>>>      $ export GIT_SSL_CAINFO="$SSL_CERT_FILE"
>>>
>>> Can you confirm?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ludo’.

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