cvs commit: ports UPDATING
Kris Kennaway
kris at FreeBSD.org
Thu Nov 1 02:24:27 PDT 2007
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
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