Re: unable to use git with github: SSL certificate OpenSSL verify result: unable to get local issuer certificate (20)

[John McCue <jmclists%jmcunx.com@localhost>]

On Sat, Jun 13, 2026 at 03:50:38PM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am running 9.4 on amd64 laptop.
> I did a "pkgin update && pkgin upgrade" with no apparent issues reported.
> I discovered that some applications went missing, so I explicitly 
> reinstalled them (e.g. firefox, subversion-base and even git).
>
> Git stopped being able to pull files from github.

git works for me mo NetBSD 11.0 RC4 amd64, what is in file
/usr/pkg/etc/pkgin/repositories.conf ?

This is what I have.
https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/$arch/11.0_2026Q1/All

Maybe you need to update that file for 9.4 2026Q1 ?

<snip>
> mozilla-rootcerts-1.1.20260211 Root CA certificates from the Mozilla Project
> mozilla-rootcerts-openssl-2.21 Wedge for installing and managing 
> mozilla-rootcerts
> p5-Mozilla-CA-20250602nb1 Mozilla's CA cert bundle for Perl
> openssl-3.6.1??????? Secure Socket Layer and cryptographic library
> gnutls-3.8.13??????? Transport Layer Security library
> libcurl-gnutls-8.20.0 Client that groks URLs

These are the items I have installed from pkgsrc from your list:
    mozilla-rootcerts-1.1.20260211
    p5-Mozilla-CA-20250602nb1
    openssl-3.6.1
    gnutls-3.8.13

Items you listed NOT on my system:
    libcurl-gnutls
    mozilla-rootcerts-openssl

> # mozilla-rootcerts install
> ERROR: /etc/openssl/certs already contains certificates, aborting.
>
>
> certificates should be installed.
>
> What else could be wrong? Before update and a couple of weeks go, last 
> time I used the laptop, everything was working!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Riccardo

HTH
John