Subject: Re: bug#49508: Implement --allow-insecure-transport for `guix pull`

From: Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2022 12:11:32 -0500

On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 11:18:08AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Unfortunately it seems that libgit2 doesn’t let us turn off certificate
> verification:
> 
>   https://libgit2.org/libgit2/#HEAD/group/libgit2
> 
> ‘verify_server_cert’ in src/streams/openssl.c is called
> unconditionally.

Ah, that's not surprising.

> So it seems that the first thing to do would be to
> submit a patch upstream that would allow users to disable certificate
> checks via ‘git_libgit2_opts’.

Right, but it might not be accepted.

> Now, by default, ‘guix pull’ honors /etc/ssl/certs.  Assuming those are
> up-to-date, it should be fine, right?

Yeah, I think so.