On Saturday, August 17, 2019, Christopher Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 problems though, as these are completely specific to running out-of-date 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. > Are you referring to any specific OS version here? > > 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]> > 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]> 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 >> >> >> On Saturday, August 17, 2019, Christopher Jones <[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]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Please see >>> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/58847 >>> 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]> >>> 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/ >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Dmitri Zaitsev >> School of Mathematics >> Trinity College Dublin >> >> WWW: http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~zaitsev/ >> >> >> > > -- > Dmitri Zaitsev > School of Mathematics > Trinity College Dublin > > WWW: http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~zaitsev/ > > > -- Dmitri Zaitsev School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin WWW: http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~zaitsev/
