cvs commit: ports UPDATING

[Kris Kennaway]

Beech Rintoul wrote:
> 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 at 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.

Sounds good to me, thanks!

Kris