On 2013-12-23 05:34 , Landon Fuller wrote: > Howdy all -- > > I think certsync is now ready to be relied on by default. Here's a > brief status update: > > - On-demand Launching: > > I've updated certsync to launch via launchd on-demand when > relevant files change, rather than staying memory-resident. This > eliminates any sort of potential runtime cost; certsync was never > large, but it doesn't hurt to not have to run a daemon at all. > > - Tiger Support > > Tiger is now supported, although actually *running* Tiger turned > out to be harder than I expected. I don't have any hardware capable > of running Tiger, so I thought i could just bring it up in a VM. As > it turns out, Tiger panics on boot under a VM on more modern > machines (eg, my nearly 3 year old iMac). > > I wound up having to track down the 10.4 kernel bug in question > and produced a binary patch I could apply to xnu. If someone else > needs to run a Tiger VM for some instance, I've posted the > background and the patch here: > http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/macosx/Virtualizing_Tiger_On_Modern_CPUs.20131217.html
Wow, that's some dedication. :) > In light of this, and the enormous number of API differences > between Tiger and Leopard, I'm not really sure maintaining Tiger > support makes sense for MacPorts, but I was able to make certsync > work regardless. MacPorts under Tiger is definitely unsupported already, we've just been able to keep base working so far. > - Next Steps > > If things look good to everyone, I'd like to move all ports over > to using certsync as a certificate store, replacing > curl-ca-bundle. > > In addition, I've started extending certsync to vend a > keychain-backed PKCS#11 plugin that can be consumed by p11-kit, > Java's PKCS#11 implementation, NSS, etc. This will provide even > better integration for modern PKCS#11-aware software. In theory, we > should be able to migrate to a fully consistent certificate store > across all applications. Very nice. - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev