“nixos-checkout” fails with error stating that it cannot connect to https://svn.nixos.org

configured environment variables “ftp_proxy”, “http_proxy”, and “https_proxy” with valid settings repeated used in other VMs and used in this VM to support “nixos-install”

installed “wget” from preloaded (CD install) Nix store

“wget https://svn.nixos.org/repos/nix/nixos/trunk” fails with error stating cannot verify “svn.nixos.org” certificate because
“ERROR: certificate common name ‘buildfarm.st.ewi.tudelft.nl’ doesn’t match requested host name ‘svn.nixos.org’.”

My research does not reveal any way to configure my environment to ignore this certificate error and proceed.

It seems appropriate to fix the certificate, and perhaps to research and publish instructions for circumventing the certificate error, and/or to support Subversion access via HTTP rather than HTTPS.

Submitted on 24 April 2009 at 23:43