The linux-flashplugin7 port distfile is no longer fetchable
from adobe's website as specified in the port, plus all
occurrences in ports/distfiles on all FreeBSD mirrors seem
to have been removed.
Many people still prefer v7 over v9 due to stability problems
with the latter.
PR: ports/116478
Submitted by: Callum Gibson <callumgibson@optusnet.com.au>
[Maintainer update] www/linux-flashplugin7 - to be restored from attic
port www/linux-flashplugin7 was deleted to the attic, due
to a licensing issue that has now been resolved. Therefore
the port can be restored.
| From: Service <service@macromedia.com>
| Date: Apr 24, 2006 5:55 PM
| Subject: Macromedia Customer Service Request [8542731]
| To: Chad Gross <avatar4d@gmail.com>
|
|
| Hi Chad,
|
| Thank you for contacting Customer Service at Macromedia, now part of
| Adobe Systems.
|
| I understand your feedback on the compatibility of Flash Player on BSD.
|
| Please note that Flash Player is not supported in FreeBSD, thus it not
| mentioned on the End User License Agreement that Flash Player can be
| downloaded and installed on the operating system. It is not that the
| web player is prohibited in FreeBSD, but the operating system itself
| is not compatible with Player.
|
| Please note that it is your option whether to install Flash Player on
| your FreeBSD; however, please note that we cannot provide you with any
| technical support, warranties or remedies for the software, although
| it is clearly stated on the End User License Agreement, the only
| authorized operating systems where you may download and install Flash
| Player.
|
| To view the System Requirements of Flash Player, you may go to:
|
| http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer/productinfo/systemreqs/
|
| In connection with this, if you would like to make suggestions or
| comments on how we can improve future versions of our software, or to
| report possible "bugs" in our current versions, please visit:
|
| http://www.macromedia.com/support/email/wishform/
|
| Your comments, suggestions, and ideas for improvements are very
| important to us. We appreciate you taking the time to send us this
| information.
|
| I hope this helps.
|
| Should you have further concerns, feel free to write us back.
|
| Regards,
|
| Astrid C. Villanueva
| Customer Service
| Macromedia, now part of Adobe Systems
PR: ports/96374
Submitted by: Jamie Jones <jamie@bishopston.net>
distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist CVS:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The EULA says:
You may not use the Software on ... (D) any operating system that
is not an Authorized Operating System.
and FreeBSD is not an Authorized Operating System which it defines.
Discussed with: maintainer (jamie at bishopston dot net),
portmgr (kris and krion)
- USE_LINUX now implies NO_FILTER_SHLIBS=yes. It also doesn't use FreeBSD
tools to strip binaries anymore, so it's not neccesary anymore to override
STRIP and STRIP_CMD.
- USE_LINUX_PREFIX implies NO_MTREE now.
- In the USE_LINUX case, USE_XLIB now depends upon the linux X11 libraries
instead upon the native FreeBSD libraries.
- The variable LINUX_BASE_PORT contains a string which is suitable as an
item in *_DEPENDS, so if a port BATCH_DEPENDS or FETCH_DEPENDS upon the
default (or overriden) linux base, ${LINUX_BASE_PORT} should be used
instead of a hardcoded reference.
- Change all ports to comply to the "new world order".
- The Ports Collection now allows to override the default linux_base port.
Specify e.g. OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT=rh-9 in /etc/make.conf to use
${PORTSDIR}/emulators/linux_base-rh-9 (the logic is to use
${PORTSDIR}/emulators/linux_base-${OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT}).
- If USE_LINUX or OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE doesn't point to an existing linux_base
port and if USE_LINUX isn't set to "yes" (case insensitive), the port will
be marked as IGNORE. [1]
- Readd USE_LINUX knobs into several ports and make several uses of a
conditional dependency ("USE_LINUX?=") into an unconditional one
("USE_LINUX=") which where removed/changed by Trevor to allow the use of
alternative linux_base ports. While this is a nice goal, the implementation
resulted in missing dependencies. The OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT knob
in this commit is supposed to fix the problem while keeping the feature.
Basicaly this includes a backout of Trevor's commit, to prevent confusion
I mention it here explicitely.
- Use the correct prefix (X11- instead of LOCAL- or LINUX-) for some ports.
Chase dependencies for this.
- Changes to make linux_devtools installable on amd64, remove some stray
device nodes (they don't work on recent OS versions and aren't really
needed).
- Make linux_base-8 PREFIX clean and remove some stray device nodes.
Additionally tell a little bit more about how to setup NIS/YP [2].
- Update the PGSQL dependency in the linux-opengroupware port to a recent
version (the old one isn't available anymore), I don't know if this
works (at least it isn't more broken than before).
- Use PREFIX/usr/share/doc instead of PREFIX/usr/doc in the divx4linux
ports, the former path exists already and gets populated by other
packages too (PREFIX=LINUXPREFIX!).
- Fix some obvious (non-linuxolator) bugs in some linux ports while being
there.
- Bump PORTREVISION where neccesary.
Requested by: portmgr (linimon) [1]
Submittted by: Gerrit Kuehn <gerrit_huehn@gruft.fido.de [2]
Approved by: portmgr (kris, linimon), maintainers (or maintainer timeout)
Tested on: ports cluster (kris)
Reviewed by: silence on emulation@
Superseedes PR: 69997
Maintainer approval from:
chris@chrisburkert.decracauer@cons.org
des
girgen
jamie@bishopston.net
mezz
mi
nivit@users.sf.net
pat
simond@irrelevant.orgriggs@rrr.deUdo.Schweigert@Siemens.com
little bit and allows to proceed to a more recent linux_base from
a stable (read as: the major bugs should be ironed out or identified
and most linux ports build just fine) source.
It also allows to ship 4.11 with a working linuxolator (the EOLed
linux_base is marked forbidden because of a security hole).
This is a major update, please read UPDATING (and CHANGES if you
develop linux ports).
Changes:
- change the default linux_base from v7 to v8
- add a newer freetype to linux_base-8 for nicer fonts display [1]
- don't let cpio use hardlinks in the linux_base-8 port to quiet some
warnings in some cases [2]
- fix a cut&past error in the linux_base-8 pkg-install script [3]
- convert the binary knob "USE_LINUX" to a version specifier, e.g.
USE_LINUX=<value> specifies a dependency upon
emulators/linux_base-<value>, exceptions are a value of "7" (which
does what you want and adds a dependency to linux_base) and any
value without a corresponding port in
PORTSDIR/emulators/linux_base-<value> (which adds a dependency to
the default linux_base)
- don't implicitly add USE_LINUX with the USE_LINUX_PREFIX knob,
this allows us to use the USE_LINUX_PREFIX knob for linux_base and
paves the way for splitting up future linux base ports into
individual pieces
- remove RESTRICTED from some GPL licensed ports, even when we only
distribute binaries, we get them from official linux sites, so
anyone can grab them there if he needs to
- add a dependency upon the linux X11 bits where necessary (based upon
guesswork)
- don't use USE_X_PREFIX in some linux ports since it adds a dependency
to the FreeBSD X11 libs, as a workaround use PREFIX?= (the clean
solution would be to remove the implicit USE_XLIB from USE_X_PREFIX)
- bump the portrevision of the linux ports ("better safe than sorry"
algorithm)
- pass maintainership of the important linux infrastructure to a
mailinglist, hijack freebsd-emulation@ for this purpose (if somebody
doesn't like this: tell us your bikeshed color at freebsd-emulation@,
my color would be "linuxolator@" in case someone cares...)
- add a pkg-install script for linux-fontconfig, but don't use it;
everything should work without it (the FreeBSD fc-cache program should
do all the work), but in case we need it we just need to decomment the
pkg-install part in the Makefile
- fix some dependencies
- fix some bugs
- add some static plists
- unbreak the ports with dependecies to more than one linux_base
This also fixes some ports which are marked BROKEN because of dependencies
to v7 and v8 of linux_base at the same time.
Known bugs:
- the linux-mesa and linux-devtools ports install libGL*.so symlinks
- some "minor" plist bugs (e.g. ld.so.{conf,cache} are modified by
the linux X11 port, so linx_Base-8 moans at deinstall time)
Future work (interested souls should coordinate with freebsd-emulation@):
- add some kind of USE_LINUX_X11 knob to streamline the X11 dependencies,
or modify the behavior of USE_XLIB in the USE_LINUX case
AFAIK trevor has some patches.
- make USE_XLIB and USE_X_PREFIX orthogonal to be able to get rid of
the PREFIX?= workaround in some linux ports
Should be discussed/coordinated on/with x11@.
- move the RPM bits from x11-toolkits/linux-gtk/Makefile to PORTSDIR/Mk/
- update to a more recent linux base
PR: 69997, 70539 (and maybe others)
Discussed with/on: java@, x11@, trevor, portmgr
Tested by: mezz, portmgr, pointyhat
RPM hunted down by: Joseph Gelinas <scirocco@tasam.com> [1]
Requested by: portmgr [2]
Submitted by: kris [3]
Approved by: portmgr
1) Hand maintainership over to ports@brandon.dvalentine.com
2) Makefile and pkg-plist cleanup. Switch to using PORTDOCS and
DOCSDIR.
3) Set NO_PACKAGE and RESTRICTED. Macromedia license forbirds
redistribution.
4) Set LATEST_LINK to avoid collision with linux-flashplugin6.
linux-flashplugin6:
1) Update MAINTAINER email address.
2) Set LATEST_LINK to avoid collision with linux-flashplugin.
3) Makefile and pkg-plist cleanup. Switch to using PORTDOCS and
DOCSDIR.
4) Set NO_PACKAGE and RESTRICTED. Macromedia license forbirds
redistribution.
This patch also updates ports/LEGAL to document the license
restrictions. The Macromedia license can be found here:
<http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/license/desktop/>
The crucial clause is 3a which states:
"You may not make or distribute copies of the Software, or
electronically transfer the Software from one computer to another or
over a network."
PR: 63059
Submitted by: Brandon D. Valentine <ports@brandon.dvalentine.com> (maintainer)
