From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 17 01:56:21 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C49C716A415 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 01:56:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jaj13@web.de) Received: from fmmailgate02.web.de (fmmailgate02.web.de [217.72.192.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6270843D6B for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 01:56:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jaj13@web.de) Received: from smtp07.web.de (fmsmtp07.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.5.215]) by fmmailgate02.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F12B1F58468; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 03:56:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [83.99.27.193] (helo=[10.0.0.11]) by smtp07.web.de with esmtp (WEB.DE 4.107 #114) id 1GOltL-0006ni-00; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 03:56:19 +0200 Message-ID: <450CAB43.1000904@web.de> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 03:56:19 +0200 From: Jona Joachim User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060915) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christopher Hobbs References: <450C98EF.70503@altbit.org> In-Reply-To: <450C98EF.70503@altbit.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: jaj13@web.de X-Sender: jaj13@web.de Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox and flash revisited. Don't shoot me for this post. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 01:56:21 -0000 Christopher Hobbs wrote: > OK, let me preface this by saying flash 7 was marked broken for a reason > (a very good one at that). I'm probably going to be stepping on some > toes here and I'd like to apologize in advance. I've managed to install > the broken port by changing a couple of files and using macromedia's own > package. It was a no-brainer. > > I don't recommend doing this by any means. I've carried out this > installation for two reasons, one was for development on an internal > machine that never touches the net. Second because of the sheer volume > of people asking about how to do this, I was curious to see if it could > be done. > > I've detailed the process here: http://altbit.org/?p=207 To get the distinfo file, just run 'make makesum', it's a lot easier. Commenting out 'RESTRICTED' is not required. > Let me say again, that this is a VERY bad idea. If it's a bad idea then why do you tell people how to do it? You could perhaps just send in a PR with your changes and the maintainer and the committers will take a look at it. --jona