Bug 630 – Fix netscape-flash ebuild

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[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) 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) 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) 2002-02-17 11:48:46 UTC]

Done as described above. Closing,