Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:37:41 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org> Cc: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru>, cvs-ports@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports UPDATING Message-ID: <200710311537.50879.beech@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <47290954.6030900@FreeBSD.org> References: <20071031033600.6DBD916A531@hub.freebsd.org> <74950621@bs1.sp34.ru> <47290954.6030900@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Kris Kennaway said: > Boris Samorodov wrote: > > 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). > > Yeah, we are not ready for 2.6 so I do not think we should be > upgrading important ports like this one to require it. > > Kris Agreed. I just talked to linimon and I'm going to revert the main version back to skype12. And as per the same conversation I would like to pull skype-devel out of the attic and move this version there (if portmgr agrees). There are quite a few people already using it. Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - beech@FreeBSD.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://www.freebsd.org X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Latest Release: / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.2R/announce.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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