Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10.05.2012 13:47, Dale wrote: >> Hi, >> >> There was a thread a while back that talked about flash. Well, I >> let mine upgrade and now it crashes, badly. I unmerged adobe-flash >> then tried lightspark and gnash. Neither of those work on sites I >> tried, which is sites I go to a good bit. >> >> Since Adobe is dropping Linux flash, that's what I read anyway, >> what is everyone using for flash now? >> >> Things I tried so far: >> >> www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.3.183.18 >> www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.233 >> www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.235 gnash-0.8.10-r2 >> lightspark-0.5.6 >> >> The version that worked last is: >> >> www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.1.102.55 >> >> It's no longer in the tree of course. < sighs > >> >> Ideas? >> >> Dale >> >> P. S. I'm working on a overlay. Any guesses on how well this is >> working out. lol >> > You should be able to install an old version via a custom overlay. The > ebuild should be here: > > http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/www-plugins/adobe-flash/adobe-flash-11.1.102.55.ebuild?hideattic=0&view=log > > I would warn you to use it with caution since flash has a long history > of vulnerabilities and normally it should be one of the last packages > to keep a version from the stoneage (for flash it translates to "older > that 2-26 weeks", normally). > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPr6WeAAoJEJwwOFaNFkYce4sIAMDsHdMGOPL7rgchZDLLlrQ8 > gTir67fawcPWZAwSc+0gN4wBBximmXYqdWyoZhGt8FJT70TDxy8hKR4leojkAS6k > MtA87A7zCAW3AiW/sP+WeLt6wpjf+4lD3+iFwAclLGfvSg+4llNV0n08QaD3dCRL > DSbQF1nUHw7uWsRa+YWFGbU8/v5TO5SsF+LGV7lx9henf3hWOKfpAGGvGqWIUsVm > 1N6sj+09bLYdl9pfjYM+0OEiVUTih/eR9k2blhk3Gi5o4+p2d4DzRziV5n+DwD+r > 1r0gwK//gf+EF5CnXvcjSztgw3pE2QWPTPJvmVPdf27jWdX2YIWo3FeWckl5aOI= > =GSok > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
I tried to do the overlay thing. It hated me so it kept spitting out errors about one thing or the other. I used the rm command to correct the overlay issue. ;-) I did get the current version to work tho. It was just my old eyes missing a USE flag change. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
