require gnutls

[lib.git] / emacs_el / configuration / install_packages.el

diff --git a/emacs_el/configuration/install_packages.el b/emacs_el/configuration/install_packages.el
index f1878ac9d51b5af5320e75f4f162487b142a761b..10410d57c94910a6d96bc3c72e8e1924fdea2a3c 100644 (file)
--- a/emacs_el/configuration/install_packages.el
+++ b/emacs_el/configuration/install_packages.el
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 ; This stub's entire point is to install use-package and org mode so
 ; everything else can be made
 
+;; add /etc/ssl/ca-global/ca-certificates.crt so that we can download
+;; packages when we're on Debian hosts which chop down the list of
+;; available certificates
+(require 'gnutls)
+(add-to-list 'gnutls-trustfiles "/etc/ssl/ca-global/ca-certificates.crt")
 (setq package-enable-at-startup nil)
 (setq package--init-file-ensured t)
 (setq package-archives '(("gnu" . "https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/")