[Nix-dev] Failure trying to build node package

[Wout Mertens]

Hi Nikolay,

this is a long-known problem with nixpkgs, some packages depend on
environment variables and these don't get set automatically.

To make https work, do `nix-env -i cacert` and then do `export
GIT_SSL_CAINFO=$HOME/.nix-profile/etc/ca-bundle.crt`. git clone should now
work.

We're currently thinking about how to solve these types of problems, see
the thread this month.

Wout.

On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 2:46 AM, Nikolay Amiantov <ab at fmap.me> wrote:

> Hello,
> Writing this to nix-dev mailing list since this looks like
> NixOS-specific problem (I can't reproduce it on Arch- or SuSE-running
> machines).
> I'm trying to make a package "parsoid" for Nix, running NixOS and having
> basically no experience in node or js. I've tried to add it to
> node-packages.json and run npm2nix, but it could not get a "pegjs"
> dependency of it. Apparently, it uses forked version of it hosted on
> github, and npm2nix can't get the package. I've tried to clone parsoid
> and run "npm install" manually to see the problem and got this:
>
> npm ERR! git clone https://github.com/arlolra/pegjs Cloning into bare
> repository
> '/home/shlomo/.npm/_git-remotes/https-github-com-arlolra-pegjs-0488b4b2'...
> npm ERR! git clone https://github.com/arlolra/pegjs fatal: unable to
> access 'https://github.com/arlolra/pegjs/': SSL certificate problem:
> unable to get local issuer certificate
> npm ERR! Error: Command failed: Cloning into bare repository
> '/home/shlomo/.npm/_git-remotes/https-github-com-arlolra-pegjs-0488b4b2'...
> npm ERR! fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/arlolra/pegjs/':
> SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate
> npm ERR!
> npm ERR!     at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:648:15)
> npm ERR!     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:98:17)
> npm ERR!     at maybeClose (child_process.js:756:16)
> npm ERR!     at Socket.<anonymous> (child_process.js:969:11)
> npm ERR!     at Socket.emit (events.js:95:17)
> npm ERR!     at Pipe.close (net.js:465:12)
> npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this *entire* log,
> npm ERR! including the npm and node versions, at:
> npm ERR! <http://github.com/npm/npm/issues>
>
> I've tried to switch between latest version in "master" and one from
> unstable channels -- no change. There are some mentions of this problem
> on the Internet -- people get advices to update npm[1], but the "master"
> version is the latest, apparently. I don't work behind a proxy, too, and
> "git clone" of this repository (git clone
> https://github.com/arlolra/pegjs/ -b startOffset) works okay. Any ideas?
>
> [1]: https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/3624
>
> Nikolay.
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