bug#46829: Fresh install of 1.2.0 can't guix pull

[Christopher Baines]

I believe there's TLS issues with pulling for the current 1.2.0 release.

root@horna ~# guix pull
substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://guix.cbaines.net'... 100.0%
0.0 MB will be downloaded
downloading from 
https://guix.cbaines.net/nar/lzip/zg72c146skpca45ijvjigqhqgx0mwiny-le-certs-0 
...
 le-certs-0  4KiB                                                               
                                                                                
            1.8MiB/s 00:00 [##################] 100.0%

Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at 
'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'...
guix pull: error: Git error: the SSL certificate is invalid

root@horna ~# wget https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
--2021-02-28 11:22:49--  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
Resolving git.savannah.gnu.org (git.savannah.gnu.org)... 209.51.188.201, 
2001:470:142:5::201
Connecting to git.savannah.gnu.org 
(git.savannah.gnu.org)|209.51.188.201|:443... connected.
ERROR: The certificate of ‘git.savannah.gnu.org’ is not trusted.
ERROR: The certificate of ‘git.savannah.gnu.org’ doesn't have a known issuer.


This is probably possible to work around by doing:

  guix pull --url=http://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git

As the commit signatures are checked, the risk of not using HTTPS should
be reduced.

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