01/01: gnu: gnutls: Configure location of system-wide trust store.

[Mark H. Weaver]

mhw pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix.

commit aa7c7f21b39a63e1e9d25bf5ea7f94aa919bd872
Author: Mark H Weaver <address@hidden>
Date:   Tue Feb 18 21:30:53 2014 -0500

    gnu: gnutls: Configure location of system-wide trust store.
    
    * gnu/packages/gnutls.scm (gnutls): Configure the location of the 
system-wide
      trust store.
---
 gnu/packages/gnutls.scm |   12 +++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/gnutls.scm b/gnu/packages/gnutls.scm
index ee75e84..d3097a6 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/gnutls.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/gnutls.scm
@@ -81,7 +81,17 @@ specifications.")
      '(#:configure-flags
        (list (string-append "--with-guile-site-dir="
                             (assoc-ref %outputs "out")
-                            "/share/guile/site/2.0"))))
+                            "/share/guile/site/2.0")
+             ;; GnuTLS doesn't consult any environment variables to specify
+             ;; the location of the system-wide trust store.  Instead it has a
+             ;; configure-time option.  Unless specified, its configure script
+             ;; attempts to auto-detect the location by looking for common
+             ;; places in the filesystem, none of which are present in our
+             ;; chroot build environment.  If not found, then no default trust
+             ;; store is used, so each program has to provide its own
+             ;; fallback, and users have to configure each program
+             ;; independently.  This seems suboptimal.
+             "--with-default-trust-store-dir=/etc/ssl/certs")))
     (native-inputs
      `(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)))
     (inputs