[OS X Emacs] Verifying Aquamacs

[Win Treese]

Hi, all. Thanks for the comments. I think we have three probably unrelated things going on:

1. The conversion of the web site probably broke the “Check for updates…” menu item. We’re trying to figure out what the right fix for that is. In the meantime, you should be able to re-download the current version from aquamacs.org; the link there is correct and works.

2. I’m not an expert on this, but I think John’s note about the “[Verifying..]” problem is about the best we know. The good news is that it doesn’t seem to be a common problem for Aquamacs, but it’s unfortunate that it’s getting in Roussanka’s way. Maybe a working re-installation from the site will fix things. Also, I do know that the current version of Aquamacs doesn’t fully satisfy the Catalina signing requirements. I hope to get that done for a 3.6 release. It doesn’t help that the latest version of Xcode won’t build Aquamacs on Catalina; fortunately it still builds on Mojave. 

3. Arthur: I think someone else asked about this, but could you describe when you get the certificate failure message? The problem is almost certainly related to the new implementation of the web site, which now has a Let’s Encrypt certificate, but I don’t know what part is trying to validate the certificate chain for it.

Please share anything else you observe or figure out!

 - Win

> On Apr 21, 2020, at 1:48 PM, Roussanka Loukanova <rl.stpuu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> FWIW, I was just writing a similar comment. These are two essentially unrelated functions, that are doing two completely unrelated things. The only possible couplings I can imagine are
> 
> 1) a failure of network connectivity that prevents both of them from working. (Note that the “check for update” function presumably always needs connectivity, but the “verify” function doesn’t if it doesn’t need to check for developer certificate validity or revocation)
> 
> 
> In my case, it seems to me that the network connectivity shouldn't be a problem, judging by:
> 
> - both problems have started recently
> - Skim / TexShop > Check for Updates...
> pops up a good window [You’re up-to-date!...]
> 
> 2) some sort of strange behavior (aka “bug”) in the macOS certificate validation code that’s causing valid, or validatable, certificates to fail to validate. 
> 
> As wild speculation, Arthur’s report that he was getting a validation error for an apparently valid Lets Encrypt cert _could_ be a hint that something of that sort is going on, or it could be a legitimate (ie, non-buggy) failure for any number of reasons. Hard to sort that out without more data.
> 
> (Out of curiosity, for Arthur or anyone else seeing Lets Encrypt errors, can you say what is generating that message? Web browser? Some other downloader? ???)
> 
> 
> I have the same question. I got a message similar to Arthur's, by Aquamacs.app (perhaps by clicking Checking for Updates) a couple of days ago. It also prompted me to select among three options, and after that, perhaps by selecting Accept (or something like that), I get like Bill, just a message "Mark set".
> 
> Best Regards,
> Roussanka
>  
> —john
> 
> 
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