Bug 11757 – Please change netscape-flash download source

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Warren Togami 2002-12-08 03:03:47 UTC]

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.)

[Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2002-12-08 10:44:08 UTC]

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)?

[Comment 2 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2002-12-08 11:21:33 UTC]

*** Bug 10607 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 3 Warren Togami 2002-12-08 16:51:46 UTC]

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.

[Comment 4 Warren Togami 2002-12-08 16:58:53 UTC]

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.

[Comment 5 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2002-12-16 04:48:55 UTC]

thanks much Warren for providing the mirrors, and the properly versioned tarballs :)