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Bug 357321 - www-plugins/adobe-flash - alternatively install a debug version
Summary: www-plugins/adobe-flash - alternatively install a debug version
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2011-03-04 09:33 UTC by Fabio Rossi
Modified: 2013-06-12 17:52 UTC (History)
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Description Fabio Rossi 2011-03-04 09:33:34 UTC
The adobe flash plugin can be installed in the debugger flavour version.

http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/10/flashplayer_10_plugin_debug.tar.gz

Is it possible to install this version by adding a debug USE flag to the ebuild?
Comment 1 Jim Ramsay (lack) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-03-15 14:31:43 UTC
Potentially, and it has been done in the past (flash player 8 or 9 I think) but it's a lot easier if the upstream tarball actually contains the full version number:  Since we are not legally allowed to mirror Adobe's software, we can't change the name and mirror it locally, and a generic version like "10" in the name means that whenever adobe does a minor version bump, suddenly all our digests fail == bad.

If you can find a debug version that has the full version number in the filename, even if it's inside an .rpm or whatever, I would be willing to try to incorporate that into the main ebuild.
Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-03-31 15:33:41 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> we can't change the name and mirror it locally

Couldn't you use a SRC_URI arrow?
Comment 3 Sergey Ilinykh 2012-12-13 06:48:08 UTC
I've added debugger version into my overlay (layman -a rion)
I was not sure about name of USE flag, so its "debugger" for now.
Comment 4 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-06-12 17:52:34 UTC
=www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.291-r1 has USE=debug added. Please test. And thanks for the suggestion(s)!