Re: Use the newly introduced GIT_ENV instead of tweaking a supposedly internal variable.

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

On Fri, 13 Nov 2015 16:36:29 +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 04:32:14PM +0100, Hauke Fath wrote:
>> [...] I don't know what pkgsrc has in that area, 
>> nor how it is integrated with potential clients (wget, git). Arguably, 
>> this should be fixed in pkgsrc.
> 
> It is.
> Take a look at
> 
> security/mozilla-rootcerts
> security/mozilla-rootcerts-openssl
> 
> It will not install these for you, and I think that's fine too.

It is not, in that a 'make' (or even 'make clean') for a git based 
package accessing the repository via SSL will error out, and you get to 
find out that (and how) you have to provide git with an SSL cert store.
 
> I have no problem with adding a way to set flags to git.mk, but the
> packages should use it this way to disable certificate checking.

"not", I take you.  ;)

Cheerio,
hauke

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