install-yarn runs into cert issue (workaround: curl insecure)

[olleolleolle]

install-yarn runs into cert issue (workaround: curl insecure)

[olleolleolle]

Well, turned out to be a flaky issue. Re-opening. Chasing this lead "perhaps the different machines running the payload on CircleCI have different /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt content".

[Jaryt]

Since this is a flaky issue that currently seems out of our control, and since there is a simple one line fix; I don't think it's worth us supporting.

For anyone in the future that may view this: if you would like to take the risk and run curl in insecure mode, add this command to your config.yml before the install-yarn command:

name: "Turn on insecure mode for curl"
command: echo insecure >> $HOME/.curlrc

Credit to: https://discuss.circleci.com/t/yarn-install-failing-node-orb/41477/4

[Jaryt]

Hi! Can you confirm that you are still receiving this error? Is it an intermittent problem, or are there specific circumstances where this might occur?

Either way, we would be wary to provide a fix which runs curl in insecure mode. The work around in the discuss post would be the best solution but we would not implement that in the orb.

[Jaryt]

Adding wontfix for now, unless there are conditions we can implement to alleviate the problem that isn't putting curl into an unsafe mode.

[olleolleolle]

The workaround removed, the CI job ran to completion. Closing issue.

Sample output

Selected version of Yarn is 1.22.17
Checking if YARN is already installed...
A different version of Yarn is installed (1.22.5); removing it
Installing YARN v1.22.17
Verifying YARN install
Success! Yarn 1.22.17 has been installed to /usr/local/bin/yarn

CircleCI received exit code 0