Was this resolved upstream or is this something that R should/could fix? If the latter, could this also go into the "emergency release" R 4.0.2 that is scheduled for 2020-06-22?
My $.02 /Henrik On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 8:13 AM Gábor Csárdi <csardi.ga...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Btw. it would be also possible to create a macOS R installer that > embeds a static or dynamic libcurl with Secure Transport, instead of > the Apple default LibreSSL. > > This might be too late for R 4.0.1, I don't know. > > Gabor > > On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 4:09 PM Gábor Csárdi <csardi.ga...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 11:32 PM Gábor Csárdi <csardi.ga...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > [...] > > > Btw. why does this affect openssl? That root cert was published in > > > 2010, surely openssl should know about it? Maybe libcurl / openssl > > > only uses the chain provided by the server? Without trying to use an > > > alternate chain? > > > > Yes, indeed it seems that old OpenSSL versions cannot handle > > alternative certificate chains. This has been fixed in OpenSSL in > > 2015, so modern Linux systems should be fine. However, macOS uses > > LibreSSL, and LibreSSL never fixed this issue. E.g. > > https://github.com/libressl-portable/portable/issues/595 > > > > r-project.org can be updated to send the new root certificate, which > > will solve most of our problems, but we'll probably have issues with > > other web sites that'll update slower or never. > > > > FWIW I built macOS binaries for the curl package, using a static > > libcurl and macOS Secure Transport, so these binaries does not have > > this issue. > > > > They are at https://files.r-hub.io/curl-macos-static and they can be > > installed with > > install.packages("curl", repos = > > "https://files.r-hub.io/curl-macos-static";, type = "binary") > > > > They support R 3.2 and up, including R 4.1, and should work on all > > macOS versions that the given R release supports. > > > > Gabor > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
