reopen 587442 found 587442 1:2.8.2 tags 587442 patch thanks I don't think Benjamin is going to manually check the Adobe website every day before his cronjob runs. That's ridiculous. What would he do then, cancel the cronjob? Your solution would be more hassle than this bug already causes. Benjamin came up with a perfectly fine solution over 2 years ago.
However, while Benjamin's solution works, it does have a technical error. Those parenthesis create a subshell, and the exit command only exits out of that subshell. So the script continues to run to the next command, where it exits with a confusing error message. I've included a patch that is a little longer but exits clean and without error. It's a bad idea to close bug reports that describe bugs that are still standing, even if you have no intention of fixing them. Here are two reasons: 1) somebody else will come across the same bug and report it again 2) in this case, at least, there are solutions listed here that someone else who comes across the same bug can incorporate themselves -Brandon
--- /usr/sbin/update-flashplugin-nonfree 2010-09-17 11:42:15.000000000 -0700 +++ ./update-flashplugin-nonfree 2012-09-02 09:58:22.000000000 -0700 @@ -201,6 +201,11 @@ targetdir=/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree libflashplayerdotso=`grep " .*libflashplayer\.so$" checksums.txt | cut -c 131-` + # Check to see if Flash player has been updated, exit if it has not. + diff $libflashplayerdotso $targetdir/libflashplayer.so && do_exit=true + [ "$do_exit" != "true" ] || do_cleanup; + [ "$do_exit" != "true" ] || exit 0; + [ "$verbose" != "yes" ] || echo "moving $libflashplayerdotso to $targetdir ..." rm -f $targetdir/flashplayer.xpt mv -f $libflashplayerdotso $targetdir
