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From: Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] www-plugins/adobe-flash
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 18:59:36
Message-Id: CAKpSnpKnPH8KEwJqcxaEQjXn4gnXz2upD73Yk8MbE39TshOUGQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] www-plugins/adobe-flash by Walter Dnes
1 On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 6:42 PM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
2 > On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 08:42:53AM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote
3
4 >
5 > https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ shows 27.0.0.183 as the current
6 > Flash version. If you don't want to give up on Flash and uninstall it
7 > altogether, I suggest that you check daily at this URL. If a new
8 > version shows up, download the ".tar.gz for linux" version, and manually
9 > replace libflashplayer.so (or whatever it's called) with the new one.
10 >
11 > Flash vulnerabilities, and updates, come so fast and furious that
12 > Portage can't keep up with them.
13 >
14 I despise flash as much as the next gentooer, but that doesn't change
15 the fact that the thing may be sometimes needed.
16
17 I just set up package.keywords to accept the unstable version
18 (whatever this means in the case of this package) and version
19 27.0.0.183 was emerged successfully (I previously unmerged the
20 formerly installed package). Still, there's something wrong with
21 portage/eix/something:
22
23 $ eix adobe-flash
24 [?] www-plugins/adobe-flash
25 Available versions: (22) 25.0.0.148^ms
26 {+nsplugin +ppapi ABI_MIPS="n32 n64 o32" ABI_PPC="32 64"
27 ABI_S390="32 64" ABI_X86="32 64 x32"}
28 Installed versions: 27.0.0.183(22)^ms(07:50:22 PM
29 10/27/2017)(nsplugin ppapi ABI_MIPS="-n32 -n64 -o32" ABI_PPC="-32 -64"
30 ABI_S390="-32 -64" ABI_X86="64 -32 -x32")
31 Homepage:
32 http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer.html
33 http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
34 https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player.html
35 Description: Adobe Flash Player
36
37 25.0.0.148 ? And it wanted to install 25.0.0.170?
38
39 Thanks
40
41 Jorge Almeida