[MacPorts] #51516: MacPorts should use a bundled copy of a newer libcurl and SSL library rather than the OS X version

[MacPorts]

#51516: MacPorts should use a bundled copy of a newer libcurl and SSL library
rather than the OS X version
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  Reporter:  ryandesign   |      Owner:  macports-tickets@…
      Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal       |  Milestone:  MacPorts Future
 Component:  base         |    Version:
Resolution:               |   Keywords:
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Comment (by kencu):

 I suppose using a bootstrap version of MacPorts in {{{/opt/bootstrap}}} to
 provide a full current version of {{{curl}}} and {{{openssl}}} that can be
 used by the main installation of MacPorts in {{{${prefix}}}} is felt to be
 just beyond the capability of average users?

 Fredowski has a quite beautiful
 [https://github.com/fredowski/osxbundler/blob/master/installmacports.sh
 shell script] to automate the installation of MacPorts from source. It
 looks like that script, with slight modification, could accomplish the
 bootstrap and then full installation.

 FYI I am using the {{{/opt/bootstrap}}} system on all systems up to 10.10
 now, and it appears to be 100% bulletproof after many continuous years of
 use. Even if MacPorts changes to some kind of darwinssl system, I'll
 likely revert/override that because this system is just better.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/51516#comment:61>
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