Re: GNU make 4.3.90 release candidate available

[Martin Dorey]

> It's more probable that David has outdated certificate DB and/or

> outdated GnuTLS on his machine.

Thanks once again to Microsoft for obeying Dorey's Law of Marketing with "safelinks", I only belatedly see David's evidence included "--2022-09-26 09:12:58--" which rather says that his clock wasn't messed up, contra my earlier suggestion.

martind@sirius:~$ < /dev/null openssl s_client -connect alpha.gnu.org:https > /dev/null

depth=2 C = US, O = Internet Security Research Group, CN = ISRG Root X1

verify return:1

depth=1 C = US, O = Let's Encrypt, CN = R3

verify return:1

depth=0 CN = ftp.gnu.org

verify return:1

DONE

martind@sirius:~$

"ISRG Root X1" rings a bell.  Ah yes, it's that old chestnut: https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2021/09/13/LetsEncryptRootCertExpire/, which contains advice for David.  I also found the work around from https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-lts@lists.debian.org/msg09627.html specifically:

sudo rm /usr/share/ca-certificates/mozilla/DST_Root_CA_X3.crt

... to be helpful.

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From: Bug-make <bug-make-bounces+martin.dorey=hds.com@gnu.org> on behalf of Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2022 10:10
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Cc: david.s.boyce@gmail.com <david.s.boyce@gmail.com>; bug-make@gnu.org <bug-make@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: GNU make 4.3.90 release candidate available

 

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> From: Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org>
> Cc: bug-make@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2022 12:31:34 -0400
>
> On Mon, 2022-09-26 at 12:16 -0400, David Boyce wrote:
> > BTW wget complains about the certificate:
> >
> > $ wget https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url="">
> > --2022-09-26 09:12:58--  https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url="">
> > Resolving alpha.gnu.org (alpha.gnu.org)... 209.51.188.21, 2001:470:142:3::c
> > Connecting to alpha.gnu.org (alpha.gnu.org)|209.51.188.21|:443... connected.
> > ERROR: cannot verify alpha.gnu.org's certificate, issued by '/C=US/O=Let\'s Encrypt/CN=R3':
> >   Issued certificate has expired.
> > To connect to alpha.gnu.org insecurely, use `--no-check-certificate'.
>
> Oddly I don't get this warning.  Maybe I have somehow asked wget to not
> check expirations?

It's more probable that David has outdated certificate DB and/or
outdated GnuTLS on his machine.