On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 7:37 PM, Damjan Jovanovic <dam...@apache.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 12:50 AM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Damjan Jovanovic <dam...@apache.org> > > wrote: > > > >> Hi > >> > >> Do we have any Macs we can use for building and testing AOO? > >> > >> I've made some progress on a commonly reported serious regression on > >> MacOS (#125431), where encrypted ODF files cannot be opened with > >> recent AOO versions (password allegedly incorrect), but need a Mac to > >> build and test AOO on. > >> > >> Can anyone help? > >> > >> Thank you > >> Damjan > >> > > > > > > As far as I know, we do not have a general Mac to use. I didn't see any > > patches attached to issue you reference. Should that approach be taken? > > I've attached it now. > ok, good. > > Can we get one? > > > Since Seamonkey was pulled out in early 2014, and replaced for the 4.1.0 > > release with nss, I wonder if some of these problems are due to changes > for > > users that were not documented at all in the 4.1.0 Release Notes. :( > > > > See: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Certificate_Detection > > > > and, I didn't know we had discussed removing nss, although we did remove > > Seamonkey. > > That could well be the problem: Macs ship without Mozilla products > pre-installed, OK. AOO is built with nss included for all platforms as default. and most users won't be setting MOZILLA_CERTIFICATE_FOLDER, > so nss could be failing to initialize, causing a failure to open all > encrypted ODF documents 😱. > I understand. The needed information on how to do this is an oversight on our part. And, when I was testing this with Linux, the setup was quite picky. I will update the 4.1.0 Release Notes pages today to include the wiki links. > Replacing nss was discussed in this thread: > http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40openoffice.apache.org/msg14374.html > and openssl suggested in this post: > http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40openoffice.apache.org/msg14373.html > Thanks. I guess I missed this. And, it's unfortunate that this lack of information to users has caused this problem if that IS the problem. > > > -- > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > MzK > > > > “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” > > --Lao Tzu > > Damjan > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” --Lao Tzu
