unsigned kexts on Yosemite

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Wed Oct 22 16:31:14 PDT 2014


On Oct 22, 2014, at 6:29 PM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:

>> We could remove these ports from MacPorts. Are signed binaries of them available from their developers? If not, we could encourage the developers to provide them, and refer them to this issue.
> 
> Shouldn't we keep them since when we support "two previous major OS versions"? They work fine everywhere except Yosemite, so only disable them there.

We can keep them regardless, I'm just suggesting one possible course of action that would match Apple's presumed security motivations behind this change. The security issues are not unique to Yosemite; it's just in Yosemite that they've done something about it.




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