Ok, I see. The difference is that the first and third URLs (with the colon
after the domain name) are scp-style addresses, so git uses SSH to connect
[1]. At least for METADATA initialization, you can do this:
Pkg.init("github.com:JuliaLang/METADATA.jl")
>
However, I'm not sure what will happen when cloning packages. Perhaps some
`insteadOf` rules can help.
Regarding the original error, google suggests it may be due to a
poorly-configured proxy, or missing CA certs. Stackoverflow has a large
number of suggestions for possible solutions [2]
[1] https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-push.html#URLS
[2]
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3777075/ssl-certificate-rejected-trying-to-access-github-over-https-behind-firewall
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Florian Oswald <florian.osw...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> that didnt' work:
>
> git config --global url."https://".insteadOf git://
> notice that i don't just want to have https:// instead of git:// (both
> don't work). i need a different call altogether, see below.
>
>
> On 30 July 2014 18:36, Isaiah Norton <isaiah.nor...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> yes - search for "insteadOf" or "https" in the readme.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Florian Oswald <florian.osw...@gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> hmm, I don't know. but - this works:
>>>
>>> git clone g...@github.com:tlamadon/Utils.git
>>>
>>> and this does not
>>>
>>> git clone git://github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl
>>>
>>> but that does
>>>
>>> git clone g...@github.com:JuliaLang/METADATA.jl
>>>
>>> I see. is there a way to tell julia to use the latter version?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, 30 July 2014 18:06:03 UTC+1, Ivar Nesje wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Do you clone the other repositories over https or the ssh based git
>>>> protocol?
>>>>
>>>> kl. 19:03:06 UTC+2 onsdag 30. juli 2014 skrev Florian Oswald følgende:
>>>>>
>>>>> i'm working on a remote server that has
>>>>>
>>>>> git version 1.7.4.1
>>>>>
>>>>> I could use this git to build julia and clone a host of other repos,
>>>>> but when I want to do
>>>>>
>>>>> Pkg.status()
>>>>>
>>>>> it fails with
>>>>>
>>>>> error: SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. Details:
>>>>>
>>>>> error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate
>>>>> verify failed while accessing https://github.com/JuliaLang/
>>>>> METADATA.jl/info/refs
>>>>>
>>>>> is there anything special about the METADATA repo? is my git out of
>>>>> date?
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>
>
