The netscape-flash ebuild currently downloads the Flash plugin tarball from Macromedia's beta site. Please change the ebuild to download from the official Macromedia Flash Player for Linux repository mirrors: http://sluglug.ucsc.edu/macromedia/tarball/gentoo/ http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/macromedia/tarball/gentoo/ http://macromedia.mplug.org/tarball/gentoo/ (The higher sites have more bandwidth available if you must choose one site.) With permission from Macromedia I run these repositories with packages and community support for many Linux distributions. Gentoo and Debian use a script to download the flash tarball, so I have made directories specific for you here. I take the latest versions of their binaries, md5sum and GPG sign it, then drop the version number in a file within that directory. These addresses and filenames will probably never change as I will make sure the updates stay consistent. Gentoo could also possibly add a GPG check against the md5sums in order to protect users from a compromised download server. The final release of Flash Player 6 is coming in a few days, so I hope that all the distributions can be ready before the announcement. If you need proof of legitimacy please e-mail me directly. (http://macromedia.mplug.org This repository is mainly for distributing the RPM packaged Flash, but I also put the tarballs here in different directories in order to count download hits for each Linux distribution. We will be compiling statistics and releasing it to the public. These should be some interesting numbers.)
interesting. I was going to contact macromedia this week to get permission to have a tarball on our ibiblio mirror. you have permission you say? can you e-me something about it? (note from macromedia, etc)?
*** Bug 10607 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I changed the VERSION file to contain only the binary version, this should be more relevant than the RPM package version that was previously there. The VERSION file will always contain the latest binary version from now on.
http://macromedia.mplug.org/rpmsource/ I forgot to mention, please check out the "setup" script from the rpmsource. It handles detecting and linking to multiple browsers in known locations and integrating the plugin into XPCOM (Mozilla, Netscape 7, Phoenix). Please feel free to use parts of the script as you wish.
thanks much Warren for providing the mirrors, and the properly versioned tarballs :)
