bug#30619: Cuirass requires TLS certificates

[zimoun]

Hi,

On Thu, 16 Sep 2021 at 09:33, zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 at 17:00, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:
>> Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:
>>
>>> the cuirass service requires TLS certificates to do continuous integration
>>> of guix (or more generally, git repositories served over https). This works
>>> when nss-certs is installed as a global package in the system.
>>>
>>> Should the service depend on the nss-certs package? Or maybe take as an
>>> optional configuration parameter a certificate package?
>>
>> I thought that, instead of assuming /etc/ssl/certs exists, the Cuirass
>> service could use (file-append nss-certs 
>> "/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt").
>> That would make it self-contained.
>>
>> That’s currently not possible though because this certificate bundle is
>> built as a profile hook.  We would first need to export the procedure
>> that creates bundles, possibly by moving it to a new (guix
>> x509-certificates) module.
>
> What is the status of this old bug [1]?  Well, if it is not fixed yet,
> it seems a forgotten bug. :-)
>
> 1: <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/30619>

>From my understanding, this old bug could be closed.  But I am not sure
to get it right about this TLS story.  So closing?


Cheers,
simon