Adobe reader

[Lubomir Kundrak]

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)