On 04/07/2013 03:55 AM, David Foster wrote:
The default security settings on OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) disallow the installation of unsigned packages, with no override. Git/Mac 1.8.2 is not signed and therefore will not install without changing the OS default security settings.
Sounds like an OSX lockin bugture to me. If anyone can sign the package with any random key, then it wouldn't provide much in the way of security, so I guess that means one has to get a signing key form Apple, which I doubt they just hand out to anyone (usually it means paying $100 to get an "apple developer certificate). That's nonsense, ofcourse, but it's how they've chosen to do business. That aside; Does the package work if you reduce the security settings, install it and then reset the security settings to their default settings later? If so, I'd call that a reasonable workaround, and we probably won't even have to document it since google should provide it for git and a plethora of other useful packages. Otoh, if enough osx folks want git on the latest pussycat, I'm sure they'll provide a package themselves sooner or later, in which case you just have to wait for that to happen. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@xxxxxx OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html