bug#25200: guix lint throws gnutls error

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Maxim!

Maxim Cournoyer <address@hidden> skribis:

> I'm using an up-to-date Guix (running directly from the Git tree) and
> recently started getting the following gnutls errors when attempting to
> run "guix lint some-package". This happens for any package.
>
> The complete error traceback returned on the console looks like:
>
>  guix lint icecat
> gnu/packages/gnuzilla.scm:304:2: icecat-45.5.1-gnu1: file names of patches 
> should start with the package name

[...]

> In guix/scripts/lint.scm:
>  786: 4 [check-vulnerabilities #]
>  781: 3 [#<procedure 35c2b00 at guix/scripts/lint.scm:771:4 (package)> #]
> In unknown file:
>    ?: 2 [force #<promise #<procedure 35c2be0 at guix/scripts/lint.scm:769:16 
> ()>>]
> In guix/scripts/lint.scm:
>  770: 1 [#<procedure 35c2be0 at guix/scripts/lint.scm:769:16 ()>]
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>  160: 0 [catch srfi-34 #<procedure 35c2ce0 at guix/scripts/lint.scm:743:2 ()> 
> ...]
>
> ice-9/boot-9.scm:160:17: In procedure catch:
> ice-9/boot-9.scm:160:17: Throw to key `gnutls-error' with args 
> `(#<gnutls-error-enum Error while reading file.> 
> set-certificate-credentials-x509-trust-file!)'.

What is the value of SSL_CERT_DIR?  Could it be that the directory it
points to contains dangling symlinks?

The logic for this is in (guix build download); search for “x509”.

Thanks for your report!

Ludo’.