From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 14 14:32:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0CF416A47A for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:32:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh2.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78DD443D73 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:32:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh2.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k5EEWrKt018010; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:32:53 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <44901E20.9080807@centtech.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:33:04 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060612) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tarc References: <449015DE.6090407@fer.hr> <20060614142715.GN22799@tarc.po.cs.msu.su> In-Reply-To: <20060614142715.GN22799@tarc.po.cs.msu.su> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1538/Tue Jun 13 15:17:56 2006 on mh2.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux-flashplugin7 & rtld - RFC X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:32:54 -0000 Tarc wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 03:57:50PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: >> There's a reasonably well-known way to make Flash7 player work in FreeBSD, described here: >> >> http://www.jail.se/freebsd.html >> >> It involves patching the rtld with this patch: >> >> http://www.jail.se/freebsd/rtld_dlsym_hack.diff >> >> I'm not an expert, but this patch looks like free lunch - it doesn't look like it's going to >> break anything (though not much software depends on it :) ) - can it be committed to current and >> releng_6? >> > See UPDATING file: > 20060408: > AFFECTS: users of www/linux-flashplugin* > AUTHOR: hrs@FreeBSD.org > > These ports have been removed because the End User License Agreement > explicitly forbids to run the Flash Player on FreeBSD. > For more details, see > http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/license/desktop/. > > Shortly thereafter, someone went and got a confirmation from macromedia that is was ok to use it. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------