On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 11:38:35AM -0700, Seth Arnold wrote: > On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 05:37:48PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote: > > Are you saying that the additional download is a problem? If so, how > > exactly, and if not, then I don't follow how this mechanism makes a > > difference to users. > > A wget or curl in a postinst command that fails (mediocre network > connectivity, unset http_proxy environment variables, temporarily failing > DNS, whatever) is going to be an unsightly mess to clean up if you're not > familiar with it. > > The version of the package that downloads the flash binaries within the > package is going to be far more resilient against these failures, because > apt knows how to recover from nearly everything (except open wifi points > with captive http login portal nonsense).
package-data-downloader provided by update-notifier-common actually does the downloading and installing of flashplugin-installer, and it internally uses apt-helper. -- Brian Murray
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