Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (507 mails)

[Michal Vyskocil <mvyskocil@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 30 of June 2009 01:28:55 Pavol Rusnak wrote:
> Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
> > Currently that is not possible with our repos because there are two
> > things I think: we would need to add the metadata (probably using
> > defined Provides keywords would do) _and_ we would need a special repo
> > parser which could read from defined repos but both could be solved at
> > some point.
> >
> > So to sum up again. I'm quite undecided what the right thing is.
>
> Ah, I see. I didn't know about the ubuntu plugin. We should probably
> keep this plugins as similar as possible.
>
> Package flash-player already has Provides symbol for mimetype:
>
>   $ rpm -q flash-player --provides
>   netscape-plugins
>   libflashplayer.so
>   mimetype(application/x-shockwave-flash)
>   flash-player = 10.0.22.87-0.1.1
>
> But that's not true for java or moonlight packages. We can add also
> other Provide symbol, for example

As Wolfgang told me, the 'Provide: mimetype(foo/bar)' is generated from 
.desktop file. I'm going to add the plugin desktop file to 
java-1_6_0-{sun,openjdk}-plugin in Factory.

>   plugin({ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384},libflashplayer.so)

I have never understood what the Firefox strings '{ec8030f7-
c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}' means and where they comes. Is this a global 
identifier of susefox plugin, or something else? I can add this to java 
packages too, if you'll need this.

Wolfgang: the java plugin is specific, because we have two implementations of 
Java plugin:
 * openjdk - open source, but sometimes it might not work (even things goes 
better)
 * sun - non-free, but should works everywhere

This situation will probably not solved, because even Sun claims that they 
will opensource it, no one believe it, so RedHat developers works on own 
implementation under the IcedTea project. Can your plugin work with it?

Regards
Michal Vyskocil
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