bug#25975: Use HTTPS in `guix pull`

[Marius Bakke]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 11:26:12AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> > +           (map (lambda (cert)
>> > +                  (copy-file cert (string-append out "/"
>> > +                                                 (strip-store-file-name 
>> > cert))))
>> > +                (list root intermediate backup))))))
>> 
>> ‘for-each’ instead of ‘map’, to make it clear that it’s for side
>> effects.
>
> Done!
>
>> > +    (license license:public-domain))) ; XXX what license?
>> 
>> It’s not copyrightable so yeah, this is a good approximation.
>
> Okay!
>
> I also changed the home-page to <https://letsencrypt.org/certificates/>.
>
> Updated patch attached.

Great! Here's a revision of `guix pull` that uses this "le-certs"
package, and assumes GnuTLS is available.

One caveat with this approach is that users will need to install GnuTLS
in their profile and set up GUILE_LOAD_PATH before `guix pull` works.

0001-pull-Default-to-HTTPS.patch
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