Publicizing MacPorts [installation]

[Bjarne D Mathiesen]

Joshua Root wrote:
> On 2021-5-23 03:12 , Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote:
>>
>>
>> Artem Loenko wrote:
>>> Yes, thanks for the tips! I am pretty sure that it is possible to
>>> automate it one way or another. But my point is that it would be
>>> helpful to have a one-liner to install MacPorts and maintain it as a
>>> part of the main repository.
>>>
>>
>> I'm 90% there there with this :
>> /usr/bin/env bash -c $( curl -fsSL --url
>> 'https://trac.macports.org/raw-attachment/wiki/howto/AdvancedDailyAdm/macports.bash'
>>
>> ) install
>>
>> When I'm running this as my normal un-privileged user,
>> it executes 🤓👍🏻 (and fails because it's un-privileged)
>>
>> !!! but !!! if I try this as my admin user, nothing happens 🤔🤓👎🏻
>> There's some obscure security setting I presently can't fathom, because
>> I can run the script locally (without curl) without any issues. And it
>> does download - it just doesn't execute 👎🏻🤔🤓🤔👎🏻
> 
> That's probably Gatekeeper and/or the Quarantine attribute doing its
> thing and stopping you from running arbitrary code straight from the
> web. curl | sh or the equivalent should be considered an antipattern

And yet HomeBrew uses it.

Now, how do I go about solving my original problem / finding the root
cause ?!?

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Bjarne D Mathiesen
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