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Date:      Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:37:49 +0200
From:      Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org, bsam@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: status of flash9/flash10 support in RELENG_7 ?
Message-ID:  <20090725123749.GA26505@abigail.blackend.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090725115525.GA85767@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
References:  <20090725013500.GC62402@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <20090725073805.GA11455@abigail.blackend.org> <20090725115525.GA85767@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>

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On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 01:55:25PM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 09:38:05AM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 03:35:00AM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > 
> > The Handbook gives a reliable, i.e. reproductible one, recipe:
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html
> > 6.2.3 Firefox and Macromedia? Flash Plugin
> > 
> > for running Flash 9 under 7.X and with default linux_base.
> 
> from what i remember, flash9 with the default linux_base (fc4)
> did not work for me (though i don't remember the details).
> Are you positive that it is a working configuration on RELENG_7 ?
>

Yes, I did many installations of Flash9 with fc4 and firefox 2 or 3 on
various boxes without any issues.  Since it was reproductible, it's the
recipe I put in the Handbook.

> Especially, fc4 does not support skype (except skype1.2, which however
> does not authenticate anymore), so using fc4 is not an option for
> me and i suspect desktop users in general.
> 

I don't use skype, so I wasn't annoyed.

> 
> > I'm also working on an update for 8.X
> 
> i see that for 8.x you suggest using fc10, which is also something i
> tried on RELENG_7 but had similar symptoms. Is there any known reason
> why HEAD and RELENG_7 should be different in terms of linux_base support ?
> 

You should ask this question to bsam (CCed) which is our linux_base
expert.

The only reason I used in the Handbook fc4 for 7.X and f10 for 8.X it's
that they are the linux_base versions used on these respective branches.

-- 
Marc



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