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Even though I've got MacPorts bash installed, it lives in /opt/local/bin, while the default one in /bin/{ba,}sh is the ancient apple 3.2 one. https://apple.sta
by shabble 12y ago
Even though I've got MacPorts bash installed, it lives in /opt/local/bin, while the default one in /bin/{ba,}sh is the ancient apple 3.2 one.
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/146849/#146851 https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/146849/#146851 has a simple enough step-by-step guide to patching & recompiling the system version with the appropriate patches, if you've got XCode installed and are comfortable with that sort of thing.
Agreed on the Apple security response time though. I reckon they have all their best guys fighting the IOS jailbreakers :P
- ergzay 12y agoYou should jump to using Homebrew. It's superior in most ways. I'd used MacPorts and Fink before Homebrew came about and I never much liked either. Homebrew is as simple as it can be and is really good at detecting conflicts which MacPorts and Fink were terrible at.
- shabble 12y agoI've fought with both of them in the past, and ultimately went back to MacPorts when I last reinstalled. Homebrew was (at the time, maybe a year or so ago) missing a lot of things I wanted to use, and some packages broke for no obvious reason. I'm sure some of it was the result of my rather frankensteinien setup by that point, but I have no real desire to reinstall things again until I have to. MacPorts may be occasionally annoying, but at least it's usually in a way have come to understand. :)