Hi, > On 17 Aug 2019, at 12:09 pm, Dmitri Zaitsev <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > I understand that MacPorts are supporting old versions going back to Tiger > and some of the stats confirm users' downloads. I do appreciate the advice to > upgrade but there can be many personal reasons why people prefer to stay with > their older systems. It is however not at all obvious that a plain upgrade to > some later supported OS would actually fix that problem, so having an > alternative would help all these users, and as you mention it is entirely > within the MacPorts system that some older `ssl` is used internally for some > reason, instead of the more recent available one that could have been used > instead, in which case the problem might have not existed.
what OS you run is of course your choice. I gave my advice and you are free to take or leave it. In this case though, upgrading your OS would absolutely 100% fix your SSL problems though, as these are completely specific to running out-of-date systems. Chris > > I do appreciate your time and fully understand that this is not your concern > but would be still thankful if anyone could advice on how to configure > MacPorts to use the recent ssl. > > Cheers, > Dmitri. > > > > > On Saturday, August 17, 2019, Christopher Jones <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Hi, > > First, please keep the discussion on the mailing list. > > just installing the up to date ports for openssl etc. is not enough, as by > default the fetches macports performs will not use these. > > I believe there are ways to bootstrap macports to do this, but as I have no > need of it (I don’t run such old OSes myself, apart from in VMs for test > purposes) I cannot comment on how that is done. > > ( Updating your OS is really the best option, if your hardware supports a new > OSes. 10.8 hs not received any security updates for quite a while now…. ) > > cheers Chris > >> On 17 Aug 2019, at 11:48 am, Dmitri Zaitsev <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Thank you! >> >> I am trying to understand the cause and it seems my both openssl and ssh are >> recent. >> Any other idea where to look for (other than OS upgrading :-)? >> >> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/58848#comment:4 >> <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/58848#comment:4> >> >> >> On Saturday, August 17, 2019, Christopher Jones <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have commented on both tickets. They are in essence the same problem, the >> out of date SSL support in macOS10.8 that is causing you https fetch issues. >> >> cheers Chris >> >>> On 17 Aug 2019, at 11:06 am, Dmitri Zaitsev <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> Please see >>> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/58847 >>> <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/58847> >>> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/58848 >>> <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/58848> >>> >>> I have managed to get around the first one by manually downloading the >>> file, but have no idea what to do about the second, which might have the >>> same cause (failed downloads). >>> >>> Any hint is appreciated. >>> >>> >>> On Saturday, August 17, 2019, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Aug 16, 2019, at 02:14, Dmitri Zaitsev wrote: >>> >>> > Unfortunately it got worse, I can't install any port at all now. :( >>> >>> Sorry to hear that... can you provide any more details? >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Dmitri Zaitsev >>> School of Mathematics >>> Trinity College Dublin >>> >>> WWW: http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~zaitsev/ <http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~zaitsev/> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Dmitri Zaitsev >> School of Mathematics >> Trinity College Dublin >> >> WWW: http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~zaitsev/ <http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~zaitsev/> >> > > > > -- > Dmitri Zaitsev > School of Mathematics > Trinity College Dublin > > WWW: http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~zaitsev/ <http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~zaitsev/> >
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