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 <dmng...@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 <dmng...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Sure, will do. >> >> On 10 May 2016 at 16:38, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: >>> Dennis Mungai <dmng...@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’.