From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 20 02:12:46 2005 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 E87B116A420 for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2005 02:12:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from akbeech@gmail.com) Received: from vfemail.net (miwi2dsl-a234.wi.tds.net [216.170.248.235]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9620A43D5D for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2005 02:12:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from akbeech@gmail.com) Received: (qmail 85594 invoked by uid 85); 20 Dec 2005 02:12:29 -0000 Received: from akbeech@gmail.com by mail.vfemail.net by uid 0 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (clamscan: 0.75.1. spamassassin: 2.63. Clear:. Processed in 1.45602 secs); 20 Dec 2005 02:12:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.2.84?) (alaska@vfemail.net@209.124.141.64) by miwi2dsl-a234.wi.tds.net with RC4-MD5 encrypted SMTP; 20 Dec 2005 02:12:28 -0000 From: Beecher Rintoul Organization: NorthWind Communications To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:12:07 -0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <20051219035752.GA27224@home-on-the-dome.mit.edu> <200512182328.38848.akbeech@gmail.com> <20051219164145.GA6735@lothlorien.nagual.st> In-Reply-To: <20051219164145.GA6735@lothlorien.nagual.st> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1471797.MSVyzjihiI"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200512191712.23720.akbeech@gmail.com> Cc: Subject: Re: flash plugin in 6.0 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: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 02:12:46 -0000 --nextPart1471797.MSVyzjihiI Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 19 December 2005 07:41 am, dick hoogendijk wrote: > On 18 Dec Beecher Rintoul wrote: > > On Sunday 18 December 2005 10:16 pm, Dev Tugnait wrote: > > > On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 01:06 -0500, James Bailie wrote: > > > > Dev Tugnait wrote: > > > > > The port is not broken cvsup your tree > > > > > > > > Yes it is. While some things work, it still does not create the > > > > proper symbolic link for the acrobat plugin, nor is the path > > > > for it correct in the sample libmap.confs. Beecher's fix will > > > > correct. > > > > > > The only thing it doesnt do is create symbolic links which does not > > > mark a port as BROKEN for one, secondly why would you remove your > > > browser_plugins dir? > > > > That was a typo, read the followup I sent immediately following the > > first message. Secondly putting plugins in browser_linux_plugins does > > break firefox and mozilla. I would call that broken where I come from. > > Users should not have to move things that were installed in the wrong > > place. That's the job of the port. > > You were very quick with your correction of the typo. Faster than some > of us read their mails ;-) > Secondly, I totally agree to the statement that the port is "broken" > You have too much to manually correct. > At the time I was not aware of the facts and lost quite some time > finding out. If you know, it's not that kind of a deal. Even though I'm not a programmer, I'm looking into fixing that port. I've=20 tried contacting the maintainer and didn't get any response. If I manage to= =20 get it working I'll file a PR. The linuxpluginwrapper has been broken since= =20 the last upgrade, acroread way before that and it took me many hours to fin= d=20 all the fixes necessary (thank you everyone who helped me with that issue).= =20 If nothing else, I'll write all those changes into a script which will do i= t=20 automatically. I would think this would be a priority if FreeBSD is going t= o=20 be a viable desktop alternative. It's exactly this kind of situation that=20 causes new users to give up and go with the penguin, or worse go back to=20 micro$oft. I can't even tell someone to read the documentation, because the= re=20 isn't any. These fixes were scattered throughout many email threads that sp= an=20 many months. If anyone needs a copy of my work-around it can be found at: http://akparadise.byethost33.com/freebsd/linuxpluginwrapper_how_to.txt Just my .02 Beech =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - System Administrator - akbeech@gmail.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | NorthWind Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://akparadise.byethost33.com =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- --nextPart1471797.MSVyzjihiI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDp2iHVq19LUoGB+MRAriWAKDKHA1QBh3y0Cmdnd4t7//4DcISAgCgm4u/ HgFAIDJFxxYqpcxvLDLXA8k= =0S0D -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1471797.MSVyzjihiI--