Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 03:56:19 +0200 From: Jona Joachim <jaj13@web.de> To: Christopher Hobbs <chris@altbit.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox and flash revisited. Don't shoot me for this post. Message-ID: <450CAB43.1000904@web.de> In-Reply-To: <450C98EF.70503@altbit.org> References: <450C98EF.70503@altbit.org>
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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
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