cvs commit: ports UPDATING

[Jan Henrik Sylvester]

Kris wrote:
 > 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.

As I noted on multimedia, it worked for me on 7.0-BETA1 after changing:

compat.linux.osrelease: 2.4.2 -> 2.4.20

Actually, I have no clue what I am doing there... I got this from:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2006-October/002719.html

(I was able to do a test call to echo -- did not test anything else.)

Regards,
Jan Henrik