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Bug 338050 - www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.2.161.22_pre20100915 elog message about adobe-flash-10.1 ???
Summary: www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.2.161.22_pre20100915 elog message about adobe-flas...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High trivial (vote)
Assignee: Jim Ramsay (lack) (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2010-09-19 16:48 UTC by DEMAINE Benoît-Pierre, aka DoubleHP
Modified: 2010-10-13 17:58 UTC (History)
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Description DEMAINE Benoît-Pierre, aka DoubleHP 2010-09-19 16:48:16 UTC
I am using enotice (i know, deprecated); but elog* users should have the same message:

Package: adobe-flash-10.2.161.22_pre20100915
 * Using adobe-flash-10.1 in a 64-bit browser is unstable:
 *   http://bugs.gentoo.org/324365
 * The recommended configuration is to use the 32-bit plugin
 * in a 32-bit browser such as www-client/firefox-bin
 * Flash player is closed-source, with a long history of security
 * issues.  Please consider only running flash applets you know to
 * be safe.  The 'flashblock' extension may help for mozilla users:
 *   https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433

At least, the message should tell about 10.2 ... at worts, maybe, the message itself is compleetely deprecated ?
Comment 1 Jim Ramsay (lack) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-10-09 19:50:11 UTC
Good catch!  In fact, that whole branch of code is deprecated... If you are installing the 64-bit version, we specifically do *NOT* want to install nspluginwrapper with the 32-bit version!

Changed the logic to do the right thing (Only install nspluginwrapper if no 64-bit version is installed), and also removed that deprecated warning.

Fixed in the next version (10.2.161.23_pre20100927)
Comment 2 DEMAINE Benoît-Pierre, aka DoubleHP 2010-10-09 22:02:58 UTC
Maybe 64b only versions should block nspluginwrapper ?

I had nspluginwrapper installed previously; if some update of nspluginwrapper remerge it, maybe this can cause problems on my nox and i should remove it ? or not ...
Comment 3 Jim Ramsay (lack) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-10-13 17:56:33 UTC
I don't think we can block nspluginwrapper, since it may still be needed for the acroread plugin or other 32-bit-only plugins.

Also, nspluginwrapper will already uninstall any wrappers for 32-bit plugins that have a 64-bit native equivalent as part of its 'autoinstall' phase.  So I think we're safe as-is.
Comment 4 Jim Ramsay (lack) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-10-13 17:58:17 UTC
But feel free to try re-installing nspluginwrapper manually and see what the result is.  The intent is:
  -> If you have 32b flash and no 64b flash, you get a wrapper for it.
  -> If you have 64b flash, you should never get a wrapper for flash, regardless of whether the 32b flash is installed or not.

Please shout loudly if this is not the case :)