provide latest OS root certificates via port?

[raf]

On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 11:46:46AM +0100, Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban at fiee.net> wrote:

> 
> > Am 31.10.2021 um 10:37 schrieb raf <macports at raf.org>:
> > 
> > On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 09:02:34AM -0700, Michael <keybounce at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > And this will happen again and again as every root certificate becomes
> > ancient and expires. So it would be nice to have an easy way to to keep
> > a system's root certificates up to date, and hopefully, one day, operating
> > system vendors will agree. :-) It'll get on the news when everyone's smart
> > TVs stop working. :-)
> 
> These TVs will have stopped working long before their certificates expire. ;)
> Then it’s just a problem for the restaurators in technical museums.
> 
> > But since it seems that there are few people using old macOS systems,
> > it might remain a manual process.
> 
> I guess there are more than few people, but not everyone complains publicly.
> I just silently installed the necessary root cert.
> 
> I’m working on a 2013 Mac mini and can’t upgrade further than 10.14 (don’t want to loose my 32 bit software, and I seem too stupid for VMs).
> (I also just upgraded a 2012 Thinkpad Edge with a SSD and current Ubuntu, but that’s a different story.)
> 
> > Is anyone else on old systems
> > able to run "/opt/local/libexec/mpstats submit"? I read somewhere that errors
> > are silently ignored during automatic submission.
> 
> It’s not installed. To which port does the command belong?
> 
> Hraban

It's the "mpstats" port.

cheers,
raf