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Date:      Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:06:41 -0500
From:      eculp <eculp@encontacto.net>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Status of Flash 9 on stable
Message-ID:  <20081015120641.1804535p8o038s0s@econet.encontacto.net>
In-Reply-To: <20081014224100.5003C4500F@ptavv.es.net>
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Quoting Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>:

>> From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@ulyssis.org>
>> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:28:58 +0200
>>
>> On Tuesday 14 October 2008 20:30:47 Kevin Oberman wrote:
>> > I have seen some messages that imply that flashplugin9 might be usable
>> > on STABLE. The port is sill marked IGNORE, though:
>> > ** Port marked as IGNORE: www/linux-flashplugin9:
>> > =09Unstable, no sound, generally unusable state
>> >
>> > I also thought that there might be a solution to the sound issue.
>> >
>> > Can anyone confirm the status? I would be happy to delete the IGNORE
>> > line if I thought it would work and I know what changes might be needed
>> > to get it to work. Even without sound, it would probably be useful. Too
>> > many sites are using Flash 9 for the entry page and there is no way to
>> > get to the site at all with Flash 7.

 From today's cvsup of Current, I still have the unmodified flash 9 =20
port with the warning messages.  Has this actually been commited to =20
Current?

Thanks,

ed

>>
>> Patches have been committed to CURRENT and should have been MFC'ed last
>> weekend, but haven't for some reason.
>>
>> The port has a PR waiting for maintainer feedback:
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D127839
>>
>> The relevant thread on emulation@ is:
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2008-September/00531=
1.html
>
> Tijl (and Paul).
>
> Thanks!
>
> I saw the entry for the fix in the 7.1 release notes, so assumed that it
> had been MFC'ed. I'll watch svn-src (or whatever cvs-src turned into)
> for the commit(s).
>
> I never have read emulation, so I need to go read the discussion.
>
> Thanks again!
> --
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
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