[Nix-dev] Curl certs

[Michael Raskin]

>I'm trying to create a package that, as part of its make, downloads some
>stuff through curl.  Most work but one in particular is failing due to
>certificates (see below).  This works if I do it on the command line.  I
>tried adding 'cacert' to my buildInputs and parameters, but that didn't
>seem to work.  What is the correct solution?  Still quite new to Nix so
>apologies if this is a common question, I didn't find anything in my
>google searches.

This will not work in chroot build.

The usual way to deal is to download with your correct certificate 
bundle, run nix-prefetch-url on the resulting file, create fetchurl
expression by known hash and url so it can ignore the certificate
check.