Re: Git/Mac refuses to install on OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Apr 7, 2013, 14:56 UTC
Message-ID: <5161890E.701@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <5160D223.3090203@gmail.com>

On 04/07/2013 03:55 AM, David Foster wrote:

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> 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.

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