[Bug 432909] Re: [karmic upgrade] flashplugin-installer creates bad symlink (amd64)

[Peter Cordes]

Found the broken symlink with cruft(8).  I don't use ubufox.

flashplugin-installer.postinst does
for p in $VARIANTS; do 
... update-alternatives with /var/lib/....so

ln -sf /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
/usr/share/ubufox/plugins


Note the /var/lib vs. /usr/lib mixup.

The postinst should put the path in a shell variable, instead of repeating it 4 times (2 times incorrectly, with /usr instead of /var).  e.g.
INST_DIR=/var/lib/flashplugin-installer
INST_SO=libflashplayer.so
and use $INST_DIR/npwrapper.$INST_SO when needed.
Maybe.

 actually, someone who knows what all the paths are supposed to be should have a look at the script and make sure that other occurrences of /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer are ok.   e.g.
NSPLUGIN_DIR=/var/lib/flashplugin-installer/ /usr/bin/nspluginwrapper -n -i /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so

flash works for me, in both firefox and seamonkey, but the postinst is a
bit of a mess with /var/lib vs. /usr/lib

I also noticed that postinst deletes the tar.gz it just downloaded, so it always has to re-download.
This only matters when mucking around, since normally the postinst will only run after an upgrade,
and those will normally come with a new tar.gz to download.

The lines in question are:
                fp_download_and_unpack

                install -m 644 adobe-flashplugin*/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/
                rm -rf adobe-flashplugin*

 the rm -rf could be  rm -rf adobe-flashplugin*[^z] to keep the tar.gz, although that's still somewhat brittle and will stop working
if they ever dist a tar.bz2, for example.


** Changed in: flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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[karmic upgrade] flashplugin-installer creates bad symlink (amd64)
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