Re: certificate update for old Macs

2022-01-04 Thread Bill Cole
On 2022-01-04 at 14:37:18 UTC-0500 (Tue, 4 Jan 2022 11:37:18 -0800) Michael is rumored to have said: On 2022-01-03, at 4:12 PM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: The only problem with that or anything similar, is that unless you go to quite a lot of work to just download rather than install the PE

Re: certificate update for old Macs

2022-01-04 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 04.01.22 um 21:11 schrieb Richard L. Hamilton: Everyone just says "As long as the roots are good you can trust the chain", and that's never made sense to me. The whole "trust what strangers say" system seems more like "Find a way for companies to make money" than any good security system.

Re: certificate update for old Macs

2022-01-04 Thread Chris Jones
In my opinion the best way to keep older hardware secure and useful past the point the max macOS version they can run is long since obsolete, is to stop using those OSes and install an alternative. There are, e.g. plenty of linux distros out there and offer a modern, maintained, OS and run jus

Re: certificate update for old Macs

2022-01-04 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
> On Jan 4, 2022, at 14:37, Michael wrote: > > > On 2022-01-03, at 4:12 PM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > >> The only problem with that or anything similar, is that unless you go to >> quite a lot of work to just download rather than install the PEM file, and >> convert it into something h

Re: certificate update for old Macs

2022-01-04 Thread John Chivian
Digital certificates are built from layers of encryption based on a trusted authority. Trust in the authority is assumed, implied, and required. From the human standpoint, you trust that the industry accepted certificate authority organization has done all the required due diligence to verify

Re: certificate update for old Macs

2022-01-04 Thread Michael
On 2022-01-03, at 4:12 PM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > The only problem with that or anything similar, is that unless you go to > quite a lot of work to just download rather than install the PEM file, and > convert it into something human readable WITHOUT installing it, and > investigate ev

Re: ffmpeg unexpectedly uninstalled

2022-01-04 Thread Christopher Jones
> On 4 Jan 2022, at 9:38 am, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Jan 4, 2022, at 02:52, Christopher Jones wrote: > >> Personally, I also occasionally run >> >>> port list requested >> >> to see the list of ports I have actively *requested* to be installed. This >> excludes ports just installed as depen

Re: certificate update for old Macs

2022-01-04 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 3, 2022, at 12:20, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > how to react best for Let's Encrypt expiration? https://trac.macports.org/wiki/ProblemHotlist#letsencrypt

Re: ffmpeg unexpectedly uninstalled

2022-01-04 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 4, 2022, at 02:52, Christopher Jones wrote: > Personally, I also occasionally run > >> port list requested > > to see the list of ports I have actively *requested* to be installed. This > excludes ports just installed as dependencies of others. Note that you should use "port installed

Re: ffmpeg unexpectedly uninstalled

2022-01-04 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 4, 2022, at 02:24, Mick wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 08:56:43AM +0700, Michael Newman via macports-users > wrote: >> I'm using the -f option because I copied it from some recommendation I read >> somewhere. I'm not smart enough to figure things like this out myself so I >> usually re

Re: ffmpeg unexpectedly uninstalled

2022-01-04 Thread Christopher Jones
As others have already commented, the best way to perform regular clean up on your installation is to just run > sudo port reclaim that does a number of tasks, all designed to clean up your installation. Personally, I also occasionally run > port list requested to see the list of ports I hav

Re: ffmpeg unexpectedly uninstalled

2022-01-04 Thread Mick
On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 08:56:43AM +0700, Michael Newman via macports-users wrote: > I'm using the -f option because I copied it from some recommendation I read > somewhere. I'm not smart enough to figure things like this out myself so I > usually rely on what I find by searching. For years I ju