Bug 630

Summary:	Fix netscape-flash ebuild
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Daniel Heater <heatmizer>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Dan Armak (RETIRED) <danarmak>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	1.0 RC6 r14
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	netscape-flash-5.0.47-r4 digest-netscape-flash-5.0.47-r4

Description Daniel Heater 2002-02-10 10:25:50 UTC

Fix netscape-flash 5.0.47

Remove dyn_fetch() function which seems to always fail.

Fix install to /opt/netscape/plugins when the directory does not exist.

Fix MD5 sum in digest.

Comment 1 Daniel Heater 2002-02-10 10:28:10 UTC

Created attachment 151 [details]
netscape-flash-5.0.47-r4

New ebuild file

Comment 2 Daniel Heater 2002-02-10 10:29:11 UTC

Created attachment 152 [details]
digest-netscape-flash-5.0.47-r4

digest - fix MD5 sum.

Comment 3 Dan Armak (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-02-16 04:07:59 UTC

I've been told that the reason the ebuild doesn't fetch the file on its own is that netscape have beenn known to update the file without changing the filename, which of course would make all our digests invalid. I am investigating & considernig the options.

Comment 4 Dan Armak (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-02-16 14:44:01 UTC

The macromedia site says the tarball was released (not last changed) in Jan 2001.  
The README in the archive says Feb 2001.  
The README in the archive mirrored on ibiblio.org has Aug 1999. This is in fact flash4 not 5. 
Explains the digest problems. 
What I'm probably going to do is this: create a new copy of the archive on ibiblio called 
flash_linux-<date or version>.tgz and put ibiblio itself (nothing else) in SRC_URI.

Comment 5 Dan Armak (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-02-17 11:48:46 UTC

Done as described above. Closing,