[gentoo-user] www-plugins/adobe-flash

[gentoo-user] www-plugins/adobe-flash

[Jorge Almeida]

Cannot download it: 404

I emerge --sync'ed yesterday, and again just a few minutes ago, in
case the particular version of the package required by portage (
www-plugins/adobe-flash-27.0.0.170) was nuked.

What might be happening here?

Jorge Almeida

Re: [gentoo-user] www-plugins/adobe-flash

[Walter Dnes]

On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 08:42:53AM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote
> Cannot download it: 404
> 
> I emerge --sync'ed yesterday, and again just a few minutes ago, in
> case the particular version of the package required by portage (
> www-plugins/adobe-flash-27.0.0.170) was nuked.
> 
> What might be happening here?

  https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ shows 27.0.0.183 as the current
Flash version.  If you don't want to give up on Flash and uninstall it
altogether, I suggest that you check daily at this URL.  If a new
version shows up, download the ".tar.gz for linux" version, and manually
replace libflashplayer.so (or whatever it's called) with the new one.

  Flash vulnerabilities, and updates, come so fast and furious that
Portage can't keep up with them.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] www-plugins/adobe-flash

[Alexander Kapshuk]

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On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 10:42 AM, Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@gmail.com> wrote:

> Cannot download it: 404
>
> I emerge --sync'ed yesterday, and again just a few minutes ago, in
> case the particular version of the package required by portage (
> www-plugins/adobe-flash-27.0.0.170) was nuked.
>
> What might be happening here?
>
> Jorge Almeida
>
>
Using a UK-based portage mirror here:
:; grep -R '^[^#]*uk' /etc/portage/
/etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf:sync-uri = rsync://
rsync.uk.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
/etc/portage/make.conf:GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/gentoo/"

With adobe-flash-27.0.0.170 still available in the portage tree:
equery -q w adobe-flash
/usr/portage/www-plugins/adobe-flash/adobe-flash-27.0.0.170.ebuild

You may want to try a different mirror. See if that helps.

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Re: [gentoo-user] www-plugins/adobe-flash

[Jorge Almeida]

On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 6:42 PM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 08:42:53AM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote

>
>   https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ shows 27.0.0.183 as the current
> Flash version.  If you don't want to give up on Flash and uninstall it
> altogether, I suggest that you check daily at this URL.  If a new
> version shows up, download the ".tar.gz for linux" version, and manually
> replace libflashplayer.so (or whatever it's called) with the new one.
>
>   Flash vulnerabilities, and updates, come so fast and furious that
> Portage can't keep up with them.
>
I despise flash as much as the next gentooer, but that doesn't change
the fact that the thing may be sometimes needed.

I just set up package.keywords to accept the unstable version
(whatever this means in the case of this package) and version
27.0.0.183 was emerged successfully (I previously unmerged the
formerly installed package). Still, there's something wrong with
portage/eix/something:

$  eix adobe-flash
[?] www-plugins/adobe-flash
     Available versions:  (22) 25.0.0.148^ms
       {+nsplugin +ppapi ABI_MIPS="n32 n64 o32" ABI_PPC="32 64"
ABI_S390="32 64" ABI_X86="32 64 x32"}
     Installed versions:  27.0.0.183(22)^ms(07:50:22 PM
10/27/2017)(nsplugin ppapi ABI_MIPS="-n32 -n64 -o32" ABI_PPC="-32 -64"
ABI_S390="-32 -64" ABI_X86="64 -32 -x32")
     Homepage:
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer.html
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player.html
     Description:         Adobe Flash Player

25.0.0.148 ? And it wanted to install 25.0.0.170?

Thanks

Jorge Almeida