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Date:      Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:16:50 +0300
From:      Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru>
To:        Beech Rintoul <beech@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports UPDATING
Message-ID:  <74950621@bs1.sp34.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20071031033600.6DBD916A531@hub.freebsd.org> (Beech Rintoul's message of "Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:36:00 %2B0000 (UTC)")
References:  <20071031033600.6DBD916A531@hub.freebsd.org>

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On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:36:00 +0000 (UTC) Beech Rintoul wrote:

>  20071030:
> +  AFFECTS: users of net/skype
> +  AUTHOR: beech@FreeBSD.org
> +
> +  The skype port has been upgraded to version 1.4.0.118. This requires a sysctl
> +  change to run. After upgrading, please do: "sysctl compat.linux.osrelease=2.6"
> +  from a terminal. Also add: "compat.linux.osrelease=2.6" to your

The default (recommended and supported) linux.osrelease for now is
2.4.2. I'd say that the best way here is to have a legacy skype port
as well (for default 2.4.2 linux.osrelease).

> +  /etc/sysctl.conf  to make this change at boot time. Also, net/skype-devel has
> +  been removed from the ports tree. All skype users are encouraged to update to
> +  the latest version.

WBR
-- 
Boris Samorodov (bsam)
Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP
FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve



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