Re: pkg install -forge issues?

[Nicholas Jankowski]

On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 6:34 AM, paul_1701E <address@hidden> wrote:
> Having similar issue.
> Adding 3rd parameter to urlread() gives more info, and confirms CA
> certificate issue.
>
>
> />>  [txt, status, msg] = urlread
> ("http://packages.octave.org/gsl/index.html";)
> txt =
> status = 0
> msg = Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with given CA certificates/
>
>
> Found issue has already been logged here
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=49869
>

Yes, I think the current status for the windows builds is that pkg
automatically pulling from the server will not work until the
installers are rebuilt. Unless someone set up to do so wants to do
this for 4.2.0 and make them available, that will have to wait until
the next release.

nickj