Can't generate hoogle data because wget certificate expired?

Question

I'm trying to run 'hoogle data', and I get this as the output :

Downloading downloads/base.txt
# base.txt (for downloads/base.txt)
ERROR: cannot verify www.haskell.org's certificate, issued by '/C=BE/O=GlobalSign nv-sa/CN=GlobalSign Organization Validation CA - G2':
  Issued certificate has expired.
To connect to www.haskell.org insecurely, use `--no-check-certificate'.
hoogle: Error when running Shake build system:
* default.hoo
* platform.hoo
* mtl.hoo
* base.txt
* downloads/base.txt.cache
* downloads/base.txt
Development.Shake.command, system command failed
Command: wget -nv http://www.haskell.org/hoogle/base.txt --output-document=downloads/base.txt
Exit code: 5
Stderr:
ERROR: cannot verify www.haskell.org's certificate, issued by '/C=BE/O=GlobalSign nv-sa/CN=GlobalSign Organization Validation CA - G2':
  Issued certificate has expired.
To connect to www.haskell.org insecurely, use `--no-check-certificate'.

I'm not sure what to do, last time I ran hoogle data it just worked and generated everything, but I can't figure out how to get around this error.

Answer 1

To get around this problem, try creating a wrapper for wget:

I'll assume your installed wget is located at /usr/bin/wget

Save this file as wget somewhere in your $PATH and make sure it is executable:

#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/wget --no-check-certificate "$@"

Now retry your hoogle command.