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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