Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of Ticket #60418, comment 13


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May 5, 2020, 7:00:17 PM (4 years ago)
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kencu (Ken)
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  • Ticket #60418, comment 13

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    55This works, but having downgraded TLS security is not ideal. But it is what it is, and that's why you only get your source code from the distfiles mirrors.
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    7 Better all around is to build macports against a current version version of software with TLS security -- that's what I do. There is a configuration option in Macports to specify the curl version you want to build against. It uses the ancient system curl (2005 vintage) when you build it, but it uses a current curl (2020 vintage) when I build it.
     7Better all around is to build macports against a current version of software with TLS security -- that's what I do. There is a configuration option in Macports to specify the curl version you want to build against. It uses the ancient system curl (2005 vintage) when you build it, but it uses a current curl (2020 vintage) when I build it.
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    99The steps to go through are not complicated, but it's an extra few steps, and explaining it to people I guess is a bit tedious, so we have not required users to do that, so far at least.