On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 08:11 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > > On Friday, 26 October 2007 at 07:17, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > >> On 25.10.2007 19:57, RPM Fusion Wiki wrote: > >>> The following page has been changed by ChristophKarl: > >>> http://rpmfusion.org/Wishlist?action=diff&rev1=12&rev2=13 > >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >>> Place your current requests here. > >>> {{{ > >>> + Request: Acrobat Reader > >>> + Summary: Viewing PDF Files. > >>> + URL: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2_allversions.html > >>> + Grounds for inclusion: For complicated documents Acrobat Reader > >>> produces better results > >>> + > >> As much as I would like a sane Adobe reader RPM in rpmfusion, it's not > >> possible afaics. From > >> http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/distribute.html > >> """ > >> Note: Third-party websites must link directly to Adobe.com for the > >> download of Adobe Reader software. Hosting the software independently is > >> not permitted. > >> """ > >> > >> IOW: we can ship that without breaking licenses, thus we won't ship it. > >> Same for flash-player afaik. > > > > We could provide nosrc.rpms like jpackage does, but we can think about it > > later. > > > > Regards, > > R. > > > > Actually I have a group of students working on a third party application > installer for Fedora, which will use a combination of autodownloader, no src > rpms (which will automatically get build using "sources" downloaded through > autodownloader) and system-install-packages, the end result will be a list of > applications like acroreader, googleearth, realplayer, etc. Which can then be > installed / updated with a single click by the enduser, while still getting > correct SELinux permissions, being easy removable as they will be installed > as > rpms, etc.
Are you creating a separate application, or integrating with existing ones? Tried asking Panu if it would be a bad thing to make rpmbuild download files Sources tags if they are not available? Creating a yum plugin shouldn't be hard also. -- Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team)
