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Hervé Cauwelier

6 Sep 2010 6 Sep '10

1:48 a.m.

Hi, I found a flashplugin package for x86_64 this morning that seemed more up-to-date than the last one maintained in community. But by the time I installed it, it disappeared from AUR. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32539 I didn't see any deletion request on the list. Has any TU taken the initiative to delete it? (I can't use the multilib package because nspluginwrapper is too unstable.) -- Hervé Cauwelier

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Ionuț Bîru

6 Sep 6 Sep

1:59 a.m.

On 09/06/2010 10:48 AM, Hervé Cauwelier wrote:

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Hi, I found a flashplugin package for x86_64 this morning that seemed more up-to-date than the last one maintained in community. But by the time I installed it, it disappeared from AUR.

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32539

I didn't see any deletion request on the list.

Has any TU taken the initiative to delete it?

(I can't use the multilib package because nspluginwrapper is too unstable.)

i deleted because is a duplicate name with the one from extra/community and because there is already a native one in AUR with the name flashplugin-native64 -- Ionuț

Hervé Cauwelier

2:03 a.m.

On 09/06/10 09:59, Ionuț Bîru wrote:

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On 09/06/2010 10:48 AM, Hervé Cauwelier wrote:

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Hi, I found a flashplugin package for x86_64 this morning that seemed more up-to-date than the last one maintained in community. But by the time I installed it, it disappeared from AUR.

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32539

I didn't see any deletion request on the list.

Has any TU taken the initiative to delete it?

(I can't use the multilib package because nspluginwrapper is too unstable.)

i deleted because is a duplicate name with the one from extra/community and because there is already a native one in AUR with the name flashplugin-native64

Thanks, I'll install flashplugin-native64. -- Hervé Cauwelier

Heiko Baums

8:07 a.m.

Am Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:03:28 +0200 schrieb Hervé Cauwelier :

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Thanks, I'll install flashplugin-native64.

I'd suggest first reading the package description: "... [WARNING!!! known security vulnerabilities]" flashplugin-native64 is an old and outdated version which has several security issues as also discussed on the Arch mailing lists. You'd better install flashplugin from [multilib] if you really need flash. Btw., I'm not sure if it is not better to remove the package flashplugin-native64 from AUR due to these vulnerabilities. Heiko

Ng Oon-Ee

9:15 a.m.

On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 16:07 +0200, Heiko Baums wrote:

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Am Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:03:28 +0200 schrieb Hervé Cauwelier :

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Thanks, I'll install flashplugin-native64.

I'd suggest first reading the package description: "... [WARNING!!! known security vulnerabilities]"

flashplugin-native64 is an old and outdated version which has several security issues as also discussed on the Arch mailing lists.

You'd better install flashplugin from [multilib] if you really need flash.

Btw., I'm not sure if it is not better to remove the package flashplugin-native64 from AUR due to these vulnerabilities.

Heiko

I think Arch users should be well-informed enough to make the decision for themselves. Its not like flashblock and the like are rocket-science, after all, and some people do have issues with nspluginwrapper (that was one of the reasons I was so happy when Adobe first came out with 64-bit flashplugin).

Hervé Cauwelier

9:51 a.m.

On 09/06/10 17:15, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:

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On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 16:07 +0200, Heiko Baums wrote:

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Am Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:03:28 +0200 schrieb Hervé Cauwelier:

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Thanks, I'll install flashplugin-native64.

I'd suggest first reading the package description: "... [WARNING!!! known security vulnerabilities]"

flashplugin-native64 is an old and outdated version which has several security issues as also discussed on the Arch mailing lists.

You'd better install flashplugin from [multilib] if you really need flash.

Btw., I'm not sure if it is not better to remove the package flashplugin-native64 from AUR due to these vulnerabilities.

Heiko

I think Arch users should be well-informed enough to make the decision for themselves. Its not like flashblock and the like are rocket-science, after all, and some people do have issues with nspluginwrapper (that was one of the reasons I was so happy when Adobe first came out with 64-bit flashplugin).

I tried nspluginwrapper, I even accepted to install like 50 lib32-* packages but it's unstable and slows down Flash even more. I don't want Flash but I need it for video sites and those f-ing sites that are pure Flash. I accept the risk of using a flawed package and I use Flashblock to choose when to suffer from this bloatware (even Youtube is blocked by default). If you delete the package, I'll just use a package unknown to yaourt so it won't change anything. Just losing potential fixes to the PKGBUILD. Would adding an install file stating that this package has known vulnerabilities and people should consider trying flashplugin from the multilib repo be a good compromise? -- Hervé Cauwelier

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