re: OpenSSH 8.9p1 deprecated variants cleanup feedback request

2022-03-14 Thread grey
ated security holes with ypcat abuses as distant early 1990s memories now). Thank you in advance for any wisdom you may be able to share on this issue! | グ レ ェ ーgrey p.s. Happy π day!

Re: latest git version no longer detected by base

2022-04-22 Thread grey
I realize I am late chiming in on this thread, and this is, without a doubt, almost entirely tangential. However, I created a preliminary Portfile for got-portable (got [Gameoftrees] is a BSD licensed, git compatible tool aiming for something similar to be a drop in replacement for git, though it i

Re: Review a fix for OpenSSL3 CVE

2022-11-01 Thread grey
I think neverpanic tends to be pretty responsive? Moreover in the severity was downgraded from Critical to High between the time the vulnerability was circulating through the grapevine until it actually was disclosed. There are also no known exploits in the wild thankfully. LibreSSL (which is wha

Re: The State of Rust in MacPorts Today

2022-12-13 Thread grey
This is a tangential, so please forgive me if this seems as if it is the wrong time to bring this up, but I seem to have some Rustaceans who may know more about this than I. I was recently seeing if there might be a way to improve upon the FFmpeg ports (there are currently three: ffmpeg, fffmpeg-d

Request for Comments: remediating OpenSSH segfaults with specific versions of XCode on Intel (Ventura?)

2023-06-11 Thread grey
Hello! This https://trac.macports.org/ticket/67539 was opened about a week ago, and while I have not been able to replicate it on any of my systems locally, it seems as if the root cause is due to XCode's clang (related: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/57692 and https://infosec.exchang

Re: More classes of maintainer

2023-11-03 Thread grey
To chime in on this, and take what I write with a grain of salt since I still feel relatively new to MacPorts, but too much dependence on GitHub gives me the heebie jeebies. I realize Trac isn't perfect, but there are far worse issue tracking systems that I have administered over the decades. If

Re: MacPorts 2.9.0-beta1 now available for testing

2024-01-01 Thread grey
Preliminary testing for the handful of ports for which I am listed as a maintainer went off without a hitch! However, I have a question which maybe someone who is a bit more of a Python wizard can explain for me? Note: I don't think this is an issue with the beta at all. For example, I performed

Re: Python dependencies (was: MacPorts 2.9.0-beta1 now available for testing)

2024-01-02 Thread grey
Thanks for the explanation! I had done some dependency walks with some pointers from neverpanic, but hadn't been able to make heads or tails of why some of the things were the way they were. On Tue, Jan 2, 2024 at 8:20 AM Joshua Root wrote: > > On 2/1/2024 11:24, grey wrote: > >

Re: CI are forcing tests for ports where tests are disabled

2024-03-12 Thread grey
I think I may have run into a similar issue with how tests have changed in CI with 2.9.x MacPorts and the OpenSSH 9.7p1 PR I submitted yesterday: https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/22981 Going back to reverting to 9.6p1 locally and running port -d -v test I see that it fails with the

Re: Port sync is broken: Error: Failed to verify signature for ports tree!

2024-06-01 Thread grey
I am guessing this was fixed? Regardless, I can't seem to reproduce a failed signature verification locally. Output with debug and verbose flags added below: % sudo port -d -v sync ---> Updating the ports tree Synchronizing local ports tree from rsync://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarba

funding/grants

2025-02-03 Thread grey
g personally, I thought it might be worth discussing more openly about how the project at large might benefit more holistically than me as an individual contributor and maintainer. Other than that, I hope everyone has been doing OK with 2025 and the year of the Wood Snake! | グ レ ェ ーgrey

Re: Recent events ...

2025-02-04 Thread grey
Ken, sorry to see you go. By all means, prioritizing self care is vital! I've experienced burn out with other libre/free open source endeavors in the past (I stepped away as a contributing editor to undeadly.org for over a decade when my marriage disintegrated and only returned in a volunteer capac

Re: Please do not remove Tiger support

2025-02-10 Thread grey
I really don't know how I feel about this: https://github.com/mistydemeo/tigerbrew In general, I am not a fan of Homebrew. However, for Tiger users feeling left out by MacPorts' recent changes, maybe that fork will be helpful? I've already seen mention on MacRumors of forking MacPorts to retain

OpenSSH 10.0 released, some help with two patches would be appreciated

2025-04-09 Thread grey
on April 7th which seemed relatively uneventful and I was thinking that removing the legacy_dsa variant was going to be one of the bigger changes, but clearly I didn't test enough to get ahead of this; my apologies. Thank you in advance to anyone who can help! | グ レ ェ ーgrey

New Portfile work in progress: openrsync help?

2025-04-08 Thread grey
g obvious, so hopefully someone else can help with something I am missing? Thanks! | グ レ ェ ーgrey

Re: Netatalk 4.x

2025-02-20 Thread grey
I encountered something similar recently with the OpenSSH 9.9p2 PR I submitted. I took screen shots and documented it in the Pull Request: https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/27712 I have absolutely no idea what was causing that, reverting to classic view (even though I never enabled

Re: libc++ & compiling C++ sources on 10.6 for non-macports users

2025-04-04 Thread grey
I'm not too sure since you didn't specify how legacy for older OS X systems you are intending? Since MacPorts deprecated Tiger and we lost kencu earlier this year; maybe this blog post from Dr. Brian Robert Callahan will be helpful? https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250329.html Admittedly, it loo

Re: Mirroring (Was: Re: MacPorts rsync is broken?)

2025-05-15 Thread grey
Thanks for the perspective. When you wrote: "You indicated elsewhere your concern about malware" I think you may be confusing me with uhm, well, someone who is not me: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/72492#comment:3 (I am not, nor have I ever been mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)). I guess I wa

Re: MacPorts rsync is broken?

2025-05-15 Thread grey
This is tangential, my apologies in advance for any thread de-railing as a result, but I saw mention of mirrors and thought maybe someone with more expertise might be able to provide some perspective into something I have been wondering about. Namely: if there might be a way to populate the distfi

snac GitHub Continuous Integration checks queued jobs stalled out?

2025-06-06 Thread grey
Hello! I submitted this Pull Request a couple of days ago: https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/28613 If I dig into the checks view (e.g. https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/28613/checks), it seems as if it's hanging with something similar to the following message (timesta