cvs commit: ports UPDATING

Kris Kennaway kris at FreeBSD.org
Wed Oct 31 16:01:54 PDT 2007


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



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